http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-2-becoming-more-vulnerable/ Advent and Lenten devotions by Goshen College students, faculty and staff Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-2-becoming-more-vulnerable/#comment-1161 RandRandy Zimmerly Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:30:21 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=832#comment-1161 Thank you for your reminder to us. It is great to see your participation in this ministry. Thank you for your reminder to us. It is great to see your participation in this ministry.

]]> http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-2-becoming-more-vulnerable/#comment-1160 Mervyn Carapiet Sat, 04 Dec 2010 05:48:04 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=832#comment-1160 Thank you, Maria, for your courageous thoughts. Pray for me to live up to them. Blessing you with Advent joy. Mervyn Thank you, Maria, for your courageous thoughts. Pray for me to live up to them.
Blessing you with Advent joy.
Mervyn

]]> http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-2-becoming-more-vulnerable/#comment-1159 kathrynlsherer Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:35:44 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=832#comment-1159 Living in hope is my goal for this advent season so I was glad to read your response to the Romans'passages and add these verses to my list of living in hope. Thank you, Maria. Living in hope is my goal for this advent season so I was glad to read your response to the Romans’passages and add these verses to my list of living in hope. Thank you, Maria.

]]> http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-2-becoming-more-vulnerable/#comment-1158 Arlene Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:31:16 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=832#comment-1158 I didn't read this until this evening, but it was certainly what I needed to hear today. Thank you for this blessing and encouragement. I didn’t read this until this evening, but it was certainly what I needed to hear today. Thank you for this blessing and encouragement.

]]> http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-2-becoming-more-vulnerable/#comment-1157 Peter Kufeke Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:28:27 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=832#comment-1157 Good insights. The language that addresses our own responsibility a bit more is to refer to our fallen self as "false self" ilo satan. The practice of Contemplative Prayer via Thomas Keating and others helps to flesh out those domains of our unevacuated selves which continue to burden us. Very nice contribution-- thnak you. p. Good insights.
The language that addresses our own responsibility a bit more is to refer to our fallen self as “false self” ilo satan.
The practice of Contemplative Prayer via Thomas Keating and others helps to flesh out those domains of our unevacuated selves which continue to burden us.
Very nice contribution– thnak you. p.

]]> http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-2-becoming-more-vulnerable/#comment-1156 debbie Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:53:39 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=832#comment-1156 Maria, you have challenged us! When you ask "How can we be healed and set free from our strongholds if we never allow ourselves to deal with them? "....well, my heart went "OUCH!" You have touched at the heart of the difficulty. Thanks for this Advent challenge. Maria, you have challenged us! When you ask “How can we be healed and set free from our strongholds if we never allow ourselves to deal with them? “….well, my heart went “OUCH!” You have touched at the heart of the difficulty. Thanks for this Advent challenge.

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