Kurt Mähler's Blog, page 2

Coral Reefs, Bird Nests, and Meditation

We're all into meditation whether we know it or not, for our hearts are designed to constantly behold something. How can we develop this into a disciplined art for beholding our Creator?

Those Who Listen Thread the Labyrinth

In an hour of increasing confusion, you are a refreshing source of hope because you listen to the voice of the Shepherd. He sends you into the maze of life with everyone else, knowing you are key to many getting out of it—not because you have the answer but because the Answer has you.

What We Learn from Elijah’s Ravens

The ravens observed a man content with waiting, silence, and vulnerability, the very virtues despised by those who value control, and the very virtues whereby the Spirit moves, evil is disarmed, and nations are healed.

The Song of the Manchild Miracle

From the work The Jaguar Oracle: A lament with hope from a child who has lost his parents and is searching for them after washed ashore from a shipwreck. The animals name him Miracle. Paco is a "manchild," as they call him, a son of "Man." They listen to the child lament.

What We Learn from the Osprey

What can we learn from the osprey? They excel at calm, watchful silence. And when the prize they wait for surfaces, they turn, focus, and dive with absolute surrender. So can we.

The Last Laugh of Easter

Why is the high point of Easter the day before Sunday? Because what happened under the earth on that day spilled over to the surface of the earth the next day and continues to the ends of the earth this day.

Hot Lava

A poem about the children's game called Hot Lava.

Three Signs of a Good Community

It is possible to find a collective work in progress called "community" who heal from their bruises and commune with the Bruised and Resurrected One. What are some indicators we may have found such a people on the journey toward Him?