Tweets On This or That:
Meditation:
Peter Snow?@PeterSnow37
How? 20 mins. Sit, let everything drop. Hopes, fears, longings or hatreds. – Everything! Be still and watch God doing His God thing. Watch!
Peter Snow?First Step: Vacate the center. – invite the Christ to occupy the center of your life. Be still now – allow the Christ to re-order your life
The soul is the emotional part of us, and is where most dysfunction resides. Fears, angers, obsessions etc are driven by “ME” at the center.
There is the conscious mind of the psychologist along with the sub-conscious and the unconscious. We call them mind, soul and spirit.
Each of us is a pre-Copernican person who thinks the universe revolves round them. This has to go. Total internal re-orientation required.
I’ve been away and Lent is over. How about some tweets on meditation? One a day for as long as I can. Look for the first one tomorrow.
Tweets on the Resurrection
Was the resurrection the Second Coming? Is He continuing to finish the job He started? No good sitting around waiting for him to return, – He has and He is. So get with the program.
Resurrection: Not a ghost, not resuscinated body, not solid, for he comes and goes. Something weird did happen, and it changed things for us.
The Shroud is the 5th Gospel. Twentyfirst Century mankind think they know what is normal, but we don’t know the half of it. Its a window to divine intent.
The Resurrection: Something really strange happened, but that is not the point. It’s what happened to the disciples, St. Paul, to you, to me as a result.
My List of Tweets For the Lenten Season:
Lenten Tweet: You can’t get to heaven by yourself, that would be the other place.
Lenten thought: When it comes to the Kingdom of God, it is not a matter of what you believe, but rather who you know. Just like the rest of life.
Lenten Tweet: There are 2 things to be said of the devil, 1. He exists and 2. He doesn’t exist. Both are equally true.- How does this work?
Lenten tweet The devil is the father of lies: A lie exists, but its content is a lie, it doesn’t exist. Devil only has the power we give him. - Evil is something else. – tomorrow
Lenten Word: Evil is not sin, when a group share their sin, evil is born, eg.racism, culture of greed, climate of hatred. Evil is serious.
A Lenten thought: Faith is the thing, religion is only the box it comes in.
Lenten thought: Stupidity is not sin, sin is forgivable, but stupidity is not. You are supposed to learn from stupidity.
There is this prayer that starts ‘Our Father’, who do I get to leave out?
Lenten Tweet: In life roads are one way, you cannot back up. So choose your path carefully and watch out for intersections.
Lenten Word: God thought you were a good idea to begin with, and he doesn’t change his mind. He has hope and vision for you, now get with it.
Lenten Word: God did not create the world, but is creating it. The moment of creation is now. What you do today is that important. Tomorrow is woven from decisions of today.
Lent: Life is a test, it is only a test, however, you only take it once so study, listen and think just so you may understand the questions.
Lenten: Emptying the self is what the spiritual life is all about. Stuffed with obsessions, fears, possessions and angers is the opposite.
Lenten Word: If this is the moment of creation, we can go with it or pull back and hide. God is inviting us to help as creators in little.
Lenten Word: “Rise up oh women of Valor be done with lesser things.” Last two weeks shows what to expect from the religious box. Open the box and run.
Lent: Confession is unraveling, defusing and recognizing your patterns. This you do with a priest, therapist, friend , spouse or by yourself.
Lent: Patterns are damage control over time. Chronic patterns harden like a shell, we become rigid and no fun to be ourselves or to be around
Lent: Our behavior is made up of patterns. Some are destructive, others define us. A pattern is reactive, a case of tail wagging the dog.
Lent: God cannot change you, you have to want it. Step 1. Its your anger, fear, self pity etc; fess up! You got yourself here, own it.
Lent: Don’t ask what God wants you to do. He will not tell you. He wants you to think for yourself and prove you’ve been listening to Him.
Lenten Word: Confess those sins done to you. They poison the well of your goodness, yet they are who you are now. To forgive is God’s gift.
Lenten Word: Sin is not falling short, it’s being destructive, to self, to others, to the world. Others have to bear your sin. So make amends
Lenten Word: For an individual religion is community that liberates or an organization that crushes. Which tries to tell you what to think?
Lenten Word: Teachers are great, I need someone in my face, that’s why the resurrection was necessary. The risen Christ is in my face still.
Lenten Word: Go deep inside yourself and you find no end, deeper in the dark of the self you feel nourishment from the matrix of the divine.
Lenten Word: It’s not about me. Justice is about the other, love is about the other, worship is about the other. God is the other we seek.
Lenten Word: Me as the center of my universe has to go. Only way is to replace ‘me’ with Christ, & for me to watch Him put my life together.
Lenten word: Heart, Soul or sub-conscious – same thing, but Christ provides a different solution for our emotional selves. Tomorrow
Lenten Word: God started with Abraham, Moses, the prophets et al, and worked through Christ. Now God is trying to speak through you.
Lenten word: Jesus was a Jew, disciples were Jews, the Lord’s Prayer is a Jewish prayer. We borrowed, copied or stole most everything.
After purchasing your book last Sunday at Emmanuel I began reading right away and other reading has been put aside for the while.
You have put into one volumn the truths from every book I’ve read, sermon I’ve heard, and conversations and classes I’ve enjoyed with Episcopalian priests over a period of 20 years. Your presentation is gripping and it is a joy to have everything brought together presenting the deep truths beneath the stories. Thank you.
V J.
I took my time enjoying your writing, Peter, reading in spurts and reflecting along the way. I found myself absorbed in the details of the stories and avoided rushing to the last page, not wanting the experience to end quickly. Thank you for your great effort.