March 24-25, 2006
DeerSpring
Theology Today Journal Club retreat occurs three times per year. Participants this time will share insights on the poetry of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz. His work reflects hope in a cultural wasteland.
The highest level of prayer is not a prayer FOR anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know God. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from the noisy world order.
Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.