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Welcome to OneLife Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. While it focuses on Christian teaching, the writer hopes persons of other faiths find inspiration here. Indeed, "God" can be whatever image helps you trust in the Sacred, by whatever means Grace touches you. Please share this ministry with others, and I hope you return soon. There is a new offering daily.
Blessings,
Rev Dr Brian K Wilcox, MDiv, MFT, PhD
Pastor-Teacher, Author, Workshop Leader, Spiritual Counselor, Chaplain
OPENING PRAYER
Oh God, Mysterious One, Perfect Love, Ever-Replenishing Grace, with humble heart and gentle mind, we pray for faith to believe in what we cannot see, and faith to disown all unworthy of Love, as that Love shines upon us through all Nature, and above all in and through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Best Friend, as that one Light leads us through the lives and words of saints and teachers through the ages. Amen.
*Brian Kenneth Wilcox. Author An Ache for Union.
LISTENING TO THE SCRIPTURE
12That's why I am suffering now. But I am not ashamed! I know the one I have faith in, and I am sure that he can guard until the last day what he has trusted me with.
*II Timothy 2.12 (CEV)
WISDOM FOR REFLECTION
Trust like life, is feeling, though much more than feeling. An unfelt life is a contradiction; an unfelt trust is a misnomer, a delusion, a contradiction. Trust is the most felt of all attributes. It is all feeling, and it works only by love. An unfelt love is as impossible as an unfelt trust. The trust of which we are now speaking is a conviction. An unfelt conviction? How absurd!
Trust sees God doing things here and now. Yea, more. It rises to a lofty eminence, and looking into the invisible and the eternal, realizes that God has done things, and regards them as being already done. Trust brings eternity into the annals and happenings of time, transmutes the substance of hope into the reality of fruition, and changes promise into present possession. We know when we trust just as we know when we see, just as we are conscious of our sense of touch. Trust sees, receives, holds. Trust is its own witness.
*E. M. Bounds. "Prayer and Trust." The Necessity of Prayer.
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