THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
DEAD AND LIVING SERMONS
I say this to all
preachers: Follow the
pull of the Spirit to
return to the Source, to
God who made you and
Christ who redeemed
you. Understand all of
your imaginative work as
an effort to return to
the Source.
Whatever our talent, if
we listen in faith and
in prayer, we can hear
the Spirit sounding in
our lives....
If we listen to (sighs
of the Spirit), we will
hear God calling
us --calling us to love,
calling us to
compassion, calling us
to justice. This is why
it is foolish to
contrast the life of
action with the life of
prayer, silence,
imagination, art and
music. In listening to
the sighs of the Spirit,
we receive power to do
what is good and just
and right. And when
preachers attend to the
sighs of the Spirit,
their words take on the
quality of heaven's
voice and their speaking
awakens in the listeners
an awareness of the
Spirit sighing within
them.
