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A page from Prayer Evolving by Dennis Rivers -- www.newconversations.net/prayers/
Window in the Great Mosque of Isfahan
PART THREE
Thoughts on the Life of Blessing
may your heart be a window
through which blessings
pour into the world
In the spring of 1975 the life of blessing opened to me. I would like
to tell you the story of how it happened.
So many events in my life have been paradoxical, and this was, too.
Obstacles turn into treasures. Treasures turn into obstacles.
I was working on a B.A. in religious studies and taking a class on
religion and science at the University of California at Santa Barbara that
year. We were assigned to read one of the most obscure but hopeful
books of the twentieth century: The Phenomenon of Man, by the Jesuit
paleontologist, philosopher and mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. It is
also one of the most ambitious books ever written, in that Teilhard hoped
to explain the evolution and destiny of the entire universe, ourselves
included.
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