We Grow Small Trying To Be Great.

Continuing A Lenten Series On Prayer: Prayer Is Co-operation With God. It Is The Purest Exercise Of The Faculties God Has Given Us - An Exercise That Links These Faculties With The Maker To Work Out The Intentions He Had In Mind In Their Creation.

Everybody Who Belongs To Christ Belongs To Everybody Who Belongs To Christ

In Our Ashrams Of East And West, Places Of Spiritual Retreat, We Begin With What We Call "the Morning Of The Open Heart," In Which We Tell Our Needs. . . . We Give Four Or Five Hours To This Catharsis. The Reaction Of One Member, Who Listened To It For The First Time, Was: "good Gracious, Have We All The Disrupted People In The Country Here?" My Reply Was: "no, You Have A Cross Section Of The Church Life Honestly Revealed." In The Ordinary Church, It Is Suppressed By Respectability, By A Desire To A Appear Better Than We Really Are.

All Coming To Jesus Has The Feeling Of Homecoming Upon It. All Going Away From Him Has The Sense Of Estrangement Upon It. The Rich Young Ruler Went Away From Jesus "sorrowful." Everybody Does. Not Only Estrangement From God, But Also Estrangement From Oneself. And The Universe! And From Life! You Are Not At Home With Life, Unless You Are At Home With Life. And Jesus Is Life!

Our Actions Are The Results Of Our Intentions And Our Intelligence.