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Archive for March, 2006

Knowing the Spirit – Discerning God’s will

Posted in Ruminations, tagged on March 6, 2006 | 6 Comments »

I find it extraordinarily difficult to know when it is the Holy Spirit prompting me as opposed to some cockamamie idea that I may have cooked up. Why is this? When the Apostle Paul writes, “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord),” he seems to have a pretty good grasp [...]

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Tikkun Olam

Posted in Ruminations, tagged on March 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Tikkun Olam is a rabbinic concept that means the healing or repair of the world. However, the concept refers to much more than just the technical meaning of the term. The idea is that we are to partner with God in the healing of the world. This partnering is done by the way we live [...]

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A Place to Ruminate

Posted in Ruminations, tagged on March 1, 2006 | 1 Comment »

For a long time I’ve been intrigued by the concept of biblical meditation as rumination. The Hebrew word often translated in Scripture as “meditate” is hagah and it very literally means to mutter. Now it occurs to me that you can’t mutter to yourself something that you don’t know or remember, so it seems to [...]

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