To: cva66snipe
Dood, you’re missing the forrest for the trees! Walking and playing your six string is ritualistic behavior! Why do you think Catholics love their rosaries so much in the face of biblical injunction against “vain” repetition?
It’s not the repetition, it’s the meditation. It’s really hard to describe until you’ve felt it. It’s kind of like all of a sudden discovering you’ve been carrying around another sensory organ you never noticed before. I’m not kidding. Some of my most profound biblical discoveries have been made straight out of my memory while praying the rosary.
If the Mary thing makes you squeamish, find an ecumenical rosary page online. I’m serious. Just try it.
857 posted on
06/29/2009 10:45:10 PM PDT by
papertyger
(A difference that makes no difference is no difference)
To: papertyger
Why do you think Catholics love their rosaries so much in the face of biblical injunction against ?vain? repetition?
"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." -- John 3:19
861 posted on
06/29/2009 10:50:26 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: papertyger
Dood I can't meditate. That's done been tried. I gave a disabling neurological impairment. I can play a guitar simply because it is automatic to me and it is acoustical not electric. I learned to play before this hit me. I've been through relaxation therapies you name it. If anything distracts me when I'm doing something that's it. If I try to read I have to concentrate and sometimes only a few minutes a day can I do it.
But who leadeth me beside those waters and restores my soul? Hum! Christ retreated alone sometimes and he encourage his followers to do the same.
883 posted on
06/30/2009 12:24:04 AM PDT by
cva66snipe
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