Jim Baker

Devotional Artist I Passionate About Sacred Art And Holy Scripture I Church Consultant I Professor I Leadership Coach

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

When we trust that the God of love has already given the peace we are searching for, we will see this peace breaking through the broken soil of our human condition and we will be able to let it grow fast and even heal the economic and political maladies of our time~Henri Nouwen

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

Praying these words can help me enter into God's presence, where there is peace that God is always with me.

Let nothing disturb you
Let nothing frighten you.
Those who cling to God
will lack nothing
Let nothing disturb you
Let nothing frighten you
God alone is enough~
St Teresa

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

All people ARE God’s people. Start your theology there. Start every theology there for God’s sake. For the sake of humanity. For the sake of the planet~Diana Butler Bass

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

Jesus wants to free us from the chain that imprisons us. He wants to free us by revealing that we are loved before we can give or receive love from anybody. Jesus came to reveal to us the original love. We are called by Jesus to come in touch with that first love~Henri Nouwen

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

The more you are called to speak and live God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The further the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be~Henri Nouwen

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

All the scriptural images of the Spirit are dynamic—flowing water, descending dove or fire, and rushing wind. If there’s rarely any movement, energy, excitement, deep love, service, forgiveness, or surrender, we can be pretty sure we aren’t living out of the Spirit~Richard Rohr

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

It’s a shame that the Holy Spirit tends to be an afterthought for many Christians. We don’t draw upon the Spirit within us. We tend to go through the motions. We formally believe, but there isn’t much fire or conviction behind it, so there isn’t much service either~Richard Rohr

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

We all are temples of the Holy Spirit—equally, objectively, and forever! The only difference is the degree to which we know it, draw upon it, and consciously believe and live it~Richard Rohr

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

We can pause and “be still” enough to remember that we are made in God’s image, and we can honor our own voice, God’s voice within us. We don’t have to wait for a special key. The key is already within us~Carmen Acevedo Butcher

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

Malignant narcissists lack a sense of humor, and are more afraid of good people than of bad people~Aquinas

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

The love of God creates in us such a oneing that when it is truly seen,
no person can separate themselves from another person~Julian of Norwich

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

The resurrection is not a one-time event.
It is the pattern of God’s movement in the world~ Richard Rohr

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

The core of the analysis of Jesus is that man is a child of God, the God of life that sustains all of nature and guarantees all the intricacies of the life-process itself. This idea—that God is mindful of the individual—is of tremendous import in dealing with fear-Howard Thurman

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

People are always shouting they want to create a better future.
It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void. The past is eager to irritate us and tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past~Milan Kundera

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

When governments claim the mantle of God, they find perdition instead of salvation~Amanda Tyler

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

Try to give your agenda to God. Keep saying, “Your will be done, not mine.” Give your heart and your time to God and let God tell you what to do, where to go, when and how to respond. Then you will be better able to discern where you are being sent to in God's name ~Henri Nouwen

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

Loving Jesus means loving God and loving our neighbors. Period. Loving God and loving our neighbors is the very definition of following Jesus. That’s it. That is the truth and always will be the truth. It is already so and will be so. It is as it is~Diana Butler Bass

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

We all reflect God's love in different ways. Together we are like a mosaic. There is the beauty of each stone, but together all the little stones tell a story that none of the stones can tell by itself. Together the different stones reflect the face of God to the world~H. Nouwen

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

Ultimately, God is speaking just one thing. The infinite love of God. Love is our origin, love is our ground, love is our sustaining reality, and love is our destiny. Love and love alone is the substance of reality. Everything else is smoke and mirrors, really~James Finley

[Jim Baker @sacredstructure]

To stay in God’s hands means that we usually have to let go of our attachments to feeling. People of deep faith develop a high tolerance for ambiguity and come to recognize that it is only the small self that needs certitude.The true self is perfectly at home with Mystery~Rohr