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Royce Johnston
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Who is
involved in the Associates Specialty Group?
Associates are involved in healing ministries. We are
also students of Scripture, authors, consultants,
academics, scientists, volunteers and witnesses of our
lives in Christ.
We are drawn into ACT through speakers, conferences,
books, and the desire to be in a spiritually sound
environment that prompt prayer and growth.
Associates have served in almost every ACT Office
including International Conference Chair, ACT President,
and Regional Coordinator.
We meet face to face at ACT International Conferences
and during the year electronically by e-mail, Skype,
gotomeeting, linkedin, etc.
Through our ACT membership we have been stretched, fed,
refreshed, inspired, encouraged, refined and healed.
Outreach
Jeremiah 29:13
The Message (MSG) 13-14 "When you come looking for me,
you'll find me. "Yes, when you get serious about finding
me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure
you won't be disappointed." God's Decree. "I'll turn
things around for you. I'll bring you back from all the
countries into which I drove you"—God's Decree—"bring
you home to the place from which I sent you off into
exile. You can count on it.
For more information, please
contact:
Royce Johnston, Chair -
ACTAssociates@actheals.org
Listen with the ear of your heart...
Prologue of The Rule of Benedict
(Joan Chittister)
It is a gentle, tender invitation,
this call to create within ourselves
a Monastery of the Heart.
It is the call to go down deep
into the self
in order to find there
the God
who urges us;
to come out of ourselves
to do the work of God,
to live in union with God
in the world around us.
It is not punitive, this call.
It is not demanding,
not harsh and unforgiving.
It is, instead, the daily guarantee
that, if we will only begin the journey
and stay the road—
listening to the voice of God
and responding to it
with all our gifts and goodness—
we will find that God stands waiting
to sustain us,
and support us,
and fulfill us
at every turn.
God is calling us lovingly always,
if we will only stop the noise within us
long enough to hear....
The Prologue to Benedict's Rule
demands of us
that we "Listen."
Listen to everything.
Because everything in life is important.
Listen with the heart:
with feeling for the other,
with feeling for the Word,
with feeling for the God
who feels for us.
Listen to the Word of God,
the Rule says,
"and faithfully put it into practice."
Most of all,
know that to seek God
is to find God.
In a Monastery of the Heart—
in the riches of the tradition it offers
and the treasures to which it leads,
and in company with others who are seeking, too—
find a loving spiritual guide
to encourage your journey,
to refresh your faith
when life is dry and dark,
when the days are long and draining,
when you are inclined to forget
that God is with us
for the taking.
Most of all, every day
start over again.
Remember that
life is for coming to see,
one day at a time,
what life and God
are really all about.
Life grows us more and more—
but only if we wrestle daily
with its ever-daily meaning for us.
God is calling us to more
than now—
and God is waiting
to bring us to it.
"Listen," the Rule says.
"If you hear God's voice today,
do not harden your hearts."
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