Meditation: “Memories Crowd Upon Us”
The following meditation, titled “Memories Crowd Upon Us,” is from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart. Memories crowd upon us as we look back over the week just passed: Many high hopes – many dreams unfulfilled; Many blunders made and, in the sharpness of our anguish, We would turn back the wheels of time and try […]
Meditation: “A Lull in the Rhythm of Doing”
The following excerpt is from the meditation “A Lull in the Rhythm of Doing” from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart. It is true that a man’s whole life may be regarded as his prayer. Ordinarily, what a person does is an expression of their intent, and their intent is the focusing of their desiring, and […]
Meditation: Work and Rest are one Entity
The following excerpt is from the meditation “Work and Rest are one Entity” from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart. We know that we cannot keep our bodies going if we do not refuel by eating and by sleeping. Over and over again, we provide for a change of pace in our life routine to the […]
Meditation: Thank God for Humor!
The following excerpt is from the meditation “Thank God for Humor!” from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart. There is always in every human relationship and in every private life some place for humor, for the sparkle in the water of life. It is easy to understand the reason for much of the tension that engulfs […]
Meditation: The Glad Surprise
The following excerpt is from the meditation “The Glad Surprise” from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart. There is ever something compelling and exhilarating about the glad surprise. The emphasis is upon glad. There are surprises that are shocking, startling, frightening and bewildering. But the glad surprise is something different from all of these. It carries with […]
Meditation: The Temptation to Oversimplify
The following meditation is titled “The Temptation to Oversimplify” from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart. There is ever present the temptation to reduce all problems to a single problem; to seize upon a single explanation for all the ills of life. In Moby Dick, Ahab reduces all evil to a single evil, the white whale. […]
Thurman: “What Can We Believe In?”
The following excerpt is from Thurman’s article “What Can We Believe In?” from the Journal of Religion and Health. For I believe that there is always something that can be done about anything. What can be done may not alter the situation, but the individual may relate to unalterable situations within the context of his […]
Meditation: I Will Not Give Up
The following excerpt is from the meditation “I Will Not Give Up” from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart. … I am destined to reach for the skies and embrace in my arms the wind, the rain, the snow and the sun, singing my song of joy to all the heavens…I shall make careful survey of […]
Meditation: Every Man Must Decide
The following meditation, “Every Man Must Decide,” is from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart. The ability to know what is the right thing to do in a given circumstance is a sheer gift of God. The element of gift is inherent in the process of decision. Perhaps gift is the wrong word; it is a […]
Meditation: No Man is an Island
The following meditation, “No Man is an Island,” is from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart. “No man is an island, no man lives alone.” These words from a poem by John Donne have been set to music and have become the theme of a variety of radio programs which are concerned with aspects of social […]