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Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 6 December 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 6 December 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 6 DECEMBER 1930 Sometimes one feels that there is a discord between the cross and beauty. But there really cannot be, for God is found best through those two doorways. This grey-blue rolling water tinged with whitecaps, hemmed with distant green hills, and crowned wit…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 15 October 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 15 October 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 15 OCTOBER 1930 Has God ever struck you as the Great Stirrer-Up? One thing He seems to have determined is that we shall not fall asleep. We make or discover paradises for ourselves, and these paradises begin to lull us into sleepy satisfaction. Then God comes with His…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 12 October 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 12 October 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 12 OCTOBER 1930 How I wish, wish, wish that a dozen or more persons who are trying the experiment of holding God endlessly in mind would all write their experiences so that each would know what the other was finding as a result! The results, I think, would astound the…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 7 October 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 7 October 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 7 OCTOBER 1930 It is that spirit of greed which Jesus said God hated more than any other. It is so diametrically opposite to the spirit of God. For God forever lavishes His gifts upon the good and bad alike, and finds all His joy in endless giving...
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 22 September 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 22 September 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 22 SEPTEMBER 1930 We have got to saturate ourselves with the rainbows and the sunset marvels in order to radiate them. It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for u…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 21 September 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 21 September 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 21 SEPTEMBER 1930 Our search for God through narrow straits has brought a sudden revelation, like an explorer who has just come out upon a limitless sea. It is not any particularly new idea but a new feeling, which came almost of itself. Today God seems to me to be ju…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 2 September 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 2 September 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 2 SEPTEMBER 1930 Tip and I and God were together tonight on Signal Hill. Oh God, let me put on paper the glory that was there. The sunset was not more beautiful than at other times, but God said more in it. I suppose it was because I was trying to make this first day …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 21 August 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 21 August 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 21 AUGUST 1930 I shall be forty-six in two weeks. I no longer have the sense that life is all before me, as I had a few years ago. Some of it is behind—and a miserable poor past it is, so far below what I had dreamed that I dare not even think of it. Nor dare I think …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 9 July 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 9 July 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 9 JULY 1930 Never did I so feel the need of a silent typewriter as at this moment, for every stroke clashes with the marvelous silence of the hills tonight. I am still under the spell of that hush and of that sunset. In all my life I have never seen a sight so beautif…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 2 July 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 2 July 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 2 JULY 1930 The newest experiment, and at present the most thrilling, is letting God talk through my own tongue and through my own fingers on the typewriter. I have been letting my tongue talk on Signal Hill behind my house and then have come home and written on the t…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The Letters 22 June 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The Letters 22 June 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 22 JUNE 1930 I have just returned from a walk alone, a walk so wonderful that I feel like reducing it to a universal rule, that all people ought to take a walk every evening all alone where they can talk aloud without being heard by anyone, and that during this entire…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 15 June 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 15 June 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 15 JUNE 1930 I walk out in the street full of Moros, and if my soul is as full of God as it sometimes is, I see what happens as I look into their eyes and pray for them. No man need try to persuade me that God does not reach them, for I see the thing happen, and now I…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 3 June 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 3 June 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 3 JUNE 1930 This experiment which I am trying is the most strenuous discipline which any man ever attempted. I am not succeeding in keeping God in my mind very many hours of the day, and from the point of view of experiment number one, I should have to record a pretty…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 1 June 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 1 June 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 1 JUNE 1930 Inwardly this has been a very uneven week. As a whole, my end of the experiment has been failure for most of the week. My physical condition and too many distractions have proven too much for me, and God has not been in the center of my mind for one-fifth …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 24 May 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 24 May 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 24 MAY 1930 This has been a week of wonders. God is at work everywhere preparing the way for His work in Lanao. I shall tell you some of the wonders presently. But just at this moment you must hear more of this sacred evening. The day had been rich but strenuous, so I…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 14 May 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 14 May 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 14 MAY 1930 Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making Him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across. It is working. I cannot do it even half of a day—not yet, but I believe I shall…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 22 April 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 22 April 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 22 APRIL 1930 The “experiment” is interesting, although I am not very successful, thus far. The idea of God slips out of my sight for I suppose two-thirds of every day, thus far. This morning I started out fresh, by finding a rich experience of God in the sunrise. The…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 19 April 1930