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Poets & Saints is a five-minute liturgical meditation, hosted by Cody Jensen, blending breath, scripture, and sacred writings from mystics and poets. Created for spiritual seekers and believers alike, it offers a quiet invitation to slow down and encounter God in the present moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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- Today5 min
A Naked Intent - The Cloud of Unknowing: Day 5
ScripturePsalm 73:25-26 (NRSVUE)Whom have I in heaven but you?And there is nothing on earth that I desire other than you.My flesh and my heart may fail,but God is the strength of my heartand my portion forever.RefrainI desire God for God’s own sake.QuoteThe Cloud of Unknowing“This is what you are to do:lift your heart up to the Lord, with a gentle stirring of lovedesiring him for his own sake and not for his gifts.Center all your attention and desire on himand let this be the sole concern of your mind and heart....You will seem to know nothing and to feel nothingexcept a naked intent toward God in the depths of your being.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Yesterday5 min
One Little Word - The Cloud of Unknowing: Day 4
ScriptureMatthew 6:7-8 (NRSVUE)When you are praying,do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do,for they think that they will be heardbecause of their many words.Do not be like them,for your Father knows what you needbefore you ask him.RefrainGod alone I seek and desire.QuoteThe Cloud of Unknowing“If you want to gather all your desire into one simple wordthat the mind can easily retain,choose a short word rather than a long one.A one-syllable word such as ‘God’ or ‘love’ is best.But choose one that is meaningful to you.Then fix it in your mind so that it will remain there come what may.This word will be your defense in conflict and in peace.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 days ago5 min
A Sharp Dart of Longing Love - The Cloud of Unknowing: Day 3
ScripturePsalm 42:1-2 (NRSVUE)As a deer longs for flowing streams,so my soul longs for you, O God.My soul thirsts for God,for the living God.When shall I come and beholdthe face of God?RefrainI reach for God with longing love.QuoteThe Cloud of Unknowing“But in the real contemplative work you must set all this asideand cover it over with a cloud of forgetting.Then let your loving desire, gracious and devout,step bravely and joyfully beyond itand reach out to pierce the darkness above.Yes, beat upon that thick cloud of unknowingwith the dart of your loving desireand do not cease come what may.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 days ago5 min
The Cloud of Forgetting - The Cloud of Unknowing: Day 2
ScripturePsalm 46:10a (NRSVUE)Be still, and know that I am God!RefrainI set all else aside. There is room for God.QuoteThe Cloud of Unknowing“Just as the cloud of unknowing lies above you,between you and your God,so you must fashion a cloud of forgetting beneath you,between you and every created thing....But I tell you that everything you dwell upon during this workbecomes an obstacle to union with God.For if your mind is cluttered with these concernsthere is no room for him.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 4 days ago5 min
By Love, Not by Thought - The Cloud of Unknowing: Day 1
ScriptureExodus 20:21 (NRSVUE)Then the people stood at a distance,while Moses drew near to the thick darknesswhere God was.RefrainBy love God may be touched and embraced.QuoteThe Cloud of Unknowing“A man may know completely and ponder thoroughlyevery created thing and its works, yes, and God’s works, too,but not God himself.Thought cannot comprehend God.And so, I prefer to abandon all I can know,choosing rather to love him whom I cannot know.Though we cannot know him we can love him.By love he may be touched and embraced, never by thought.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago5 min
God Alone Suffices (Brian Zahnd) - Unseen Existences: Day 55
A five-minute Christian meditation and lectio divina practice on John 14:2-3, with a reading from Brian Zahnd's Unseen Existences. Day 55 of the Unseen Existences series.ScriptureJohn 14:2-3 (NRSVUE)In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.If it were not so,would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?And if I go and prepare a place for you,I will come again and will take you to myself,so that where I am, there you may be also.RefrainGod alone suffices.QuoteBrian Zahnd, from Unseen Existences“There are sorrows, but there are also joys.There are heartaches, but there are also healings.There are woes innumerable,but there is also a peace that passes understanding.There are adversaries, but there is also a Helper.There are accusations, but there is also an Advocate.There is anguish, but there is also a Comforter.And so we press on.We will find our way homebecause the One who calls us homewill make a way even when there seems to be no way.Be of good cheer, pilgrim. You’re on the right path.You will make it.No one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end.Buen camino.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago5 min
Patience Obtains All Things (Alan Kreider) - Unseen Existences: Day 54
A five-minute Christian meditation and lectio divina practice on James 1:2-4, with a reading from Alan Kreider's The Patient Ferment of the Early Church. Day 54 of the Unseen Existences series.ScriptureJames 1:2-4 (NKJV)My brethren, count it all joywhen you fall into various trials,knowing that the testing of your faithproduces patience.But let patience have its perfect work,that you may be perfect and complete,lacking nothing.RefrainPatience obtains all things.QuoteAlan Kreider, from The Patient Ferment of the Early Church“Patience was not a virtue dear to most Greco-Roman people....But Christian writers called patience ‘the highest virtue,’‘the greatest of all virtues,’the virtue that was ‘particularly Christian.’The Christians believed that God is patientand that Jesus visibly embodied patience.And they concluded that they, trusting in God, should be patient:not controlling events, not anxious or in a hurry,and never using force to achieve their ends.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago5 min
All Things Are Passing Away (Peri Zahnd) - Unseen Existences: Day 53
A five-minute Christian meditation and lectio divina practice on Isaiah 40:8, with a reading from Peri Zahnd's Every Scene by Heart. Day 53 of the Unseen Existences series.ScriptureIsaiah 40:8 (NRSVUE)The grass withers; the flower fades,but the word of our God will stand forever.RefrainAll things are passing. God never changes.QuotePeri Zahnd, from Every Scene by Heart“This is the Meseta,that middle section of life,that sometimes boring, sometimes tedious section of life,but we realize in hindsight how beautiful it all wasand that we wouldn’t have skipped it for anything!...And then you leave the Meseta and cross more mountains.You realize the end is nearer, but that it’s really just a beginning....It’s a mystery, but a mystery I now approachmore trustingly, more willingly,surrendering myself to the purposes of God.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Poets & Saints is a five-minute liturgical meditation, hosted by Cody Jensen, blending breath, scripture, and sacred writings from mystics and poets. Created for spiritual seekers and believers alike, it offers a quiet invitation to slow down and encounter God in the present moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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