Contemplative Outreach-Kansas City

05/31/2026

As you sit…God is present in the ungraspable immediacy of your sitting.

James Finley

05/31/2026

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

Saint Paul

05/30/2026

…he poured scorn on all requests, even from his disciples, for a sign from heaven. A sign was too easy. What Jesus asked for was faith, whereby mountains could be moved, and the blind could be made to see, the infirm to rise up and walk and the dead to come alive. The only worthwhile sign, Jesus insisted, was the truth of what he had to say.

Malcolm Muggeridge

05/29/2026

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, there was a kingdom of acorns, nestled at the foot of a grand old oak tree. Since the citizens of this kingdom were modern, fully Westernized acorns, they went about their life with a purposeful energy; and since they were mid-life baby-boomer acorns, they engaged in a lot of self-help courses.

There were seminars called “Getting All You Can out of Your Shell” and “Who Would You Be Without Your Nutty Story?” There were woundedness and recovery groups for acorns who had been bruised in their fall from the tree. There were spas for oiling and polishing those shells and various acornopathic therapies to enhance longevity and well-being.

One day in the midst of this kingdom there suddenly appeared a knotty little stranger, apparently dropped out of the blue by a passing bird. He was capless and dirty, making an immediate negative impression on his fellow acorns. And to make things worse, crouched beneath the mighty oak tree, he stammered out a wild tale.

Pointing up at the tree, he said, “We … are … that!”

Delusional thinking, obviously, the other acorns concluded, but they continued to engage him in conversation:

“So tell us, how do we … become that tree?” “Well,” said he, pointing downward, “it has something to do with going into the ground … and cracking open the shell.”

“Insane!” they responded. “Totally morbid! Why then we wouldn’t be acorns anymore.”

Cynthia Bourgeault

05/27/2026

You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.

Paul Tillich

05/24/2026

God is not just one thing, but infinite possibilities.

Thomas Keating

05/17/2026

05/14/2026

From When God is Silent (Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching)