by Rodney Marsh For about 15 years I have been using John Main’s trinitarian prayer to introduce my twice daily, thirty minute meditation sessions: “Heavenly Father, open our hearts to…
by Rodney Marsh Every Easter I feel a certain dissonance. The nature analogies (mainly English) for Easter carry little meaning where I live so I wrote the following to think…
by Rodney Marsh I believe in the Resurrection of the body. In particular, Jesus’ body. Why? When I first began to follow Jesus I was taught that Jesus rose from…
by Rodney Marsh “But if you do that, we won’t be able to see your beautiful face.” That’s what I nearly said when advising a group meditation member to switch…
By Rodney Marsh — Here follows a poem I wrote about my experience of learning the practice of Christian Meditation in the John Main tradition. This ‘mantra’ style of prayer…
By Rodney Marsh — There is much modern recognition that, for our mental health if nothing else, we need rest from work. However, there is little modern guidance on how…
By Rodney Marsh — Don’t worry about tomorrow. It will take care of itself. You have enough to worry about today….. I tell you not to worry about your life.…
By Rodney Marsh — John tells us that all of creation “received its life” from God and God gave “light to everyone” with the gift of life (John 1:3,4). No…
