David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Tag: Prayer

  • Solve

    1. Solve the problem now, not yesterday.
    2. Be very hones–and learn to keep your mouth shut.
    3. Tell your truth, live your life, love as much as possible.
    4. Forget fear, be on time, be honest.
    5. Everything will be all right, you get what you need.
    6. Read as much as you can–pay close attention.
    7. Understand what you have committed too–ask lots of questions.
    8. Be certain of what you are certain of.
    9. Do not hunger for jobs–be patient

  • St. Paisius Velichkovsky

    Remember, O my soul, the terrible and frightful wonder: that your
    Creator for your sake became Man, and deigned to suffer for the
    sake of your salvation. His angels tremble, the Cherubim are
    terrified, the Seraphim are in fear, and all the heavenly powers
    ceaselessly give praise; and you, unfortunate soul, remain in
    laziness. At least from this time forth arise and do not put off,
    my beloved soul, holy repentence, contrition of heart and penance
    for your sins.

  • Lazy

    1. Do not be lazy.
    2. Be consistent.
    3. The whole truth is more then some of the truth.
    4. Remember to be grateful.
    5. A job is what one can do for them.
    6. Understand what you bring to the table.
    7. Forget what you do not need to remember.
    8. Listen to where the blues come from.
    9. Don’t be afraid of the root cause.
    10. Make sense of the need to forgive
    11. Make sense of now.

  • St. Anthony the Great

    I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I
    said groaning, “What can get through from such snares?” Then I
    heard a voice saying to me, “Humility.”

  • Present

    1. I am feeling very present.
    2. I do not need anything, everything is a want.
    3. I do not fear anything.
    4. Willingness has over come fear.
    5. The reduction of online time has increased my presence.
    6. The ink that I am using is a little to runny and not consistent enough.
    7. I have found a great drive to work.
    8. I am feeling a lot of sober love.
    9. The hug is a very strange act–we do not do it enough
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  • Something

    1. Have something to do.
    2. Stay busy and focused when I am not sure.
    3. There is a first time for everything after that it gets confusing.
    4. Confusion is not something to be feared.
    5. Relax and take it easy.
    6. Make things easy.

  • St. John Climacus

    Let us charge into the good fight with joy and love without being
    afraid of our enemies. Though unseen themselves, they can look at
    the face of our soul, and if they see it altered by fear, they
    take up arms against us all the more fiercely. For the cunning
    creatures have observed that we are scared. So let us take up arms
    against them courageously. No one will fight with a resolute
    fighter.

  • Aum

    1. Aum
    2. Peace
    3. Patience
    4. Observe
    5. Reflect
    6. Comprehend
    7. Share
    8. Rehearsal
    9. Grow
    10. Love

  • 30 Rungs to Spiritual Growth

    1. On renunciation of the world
    2. On detachment
    3. On exile or pilgrimage; concerning dreams that beginners have
    4. On blessed and ever-memorable obedience (in addition to episodes involving many individuals)
    5. On painstaking and true repentance which constitutes the life of the holy convicts; and about the Prison
    6. On remembrance of death
    7. On joy-making mourning
    8. On freedom from anger and on meekness
    9. On remembrance of wrongs
    10. On slander or calumny
    11. On talkativeness and silence
    12. On lying
    13. On despondency
    14. On that clamorous mistress, the stomach
    15. On incorruptible purity and chastity, to which the corruptible attain by toil and sweat
    16. On love of money, or avarice
    17. On non-possessiveness (that hastens one Heavenwards)
    18. On insensibility, that is, deadening of the soul and the death of the mind before the death of the body
    19. On sleep, prayer, and psalmody with the brotherhood
    20. On bodily vigil and how to use it to attain spiritual vigil, and how to practise it
    21. On unmanly and puerile cowardice
    22. On the many forms of vainglory
    23. On mad pride and (in the same Step) on unclean blasphemous thoughts; concerning unmentionable blasphemous thoughts
    24. On meekness, simplicity, and guilelessness which come not from nature but from conscious effort, and about guile
    25. On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility, which is rooted in spiritual perception
    26. On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues; on expert discernment; brief summary of all aforementioned
    27. On holy stillness of body and soul; different aspects of stillness and how to distinguish them
    28. On holy and blessed prayer, the mother of virtues, and on the attitude of mind and body in prayer
    29. Concerning Heaven on earth, or Godlike dispassion and perfection, and the resurrection of the soul before the general resurrection
    30. Concerning the linking together of the supreme trinity among the virtues; a brief exhortation summarizing all that has said at length in this book

  • Colossians 2, 8

    See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to human tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world 3 and not according to Christ.