All who seek to live a life of peace, love and service are invited to share in this Internet ministry. You do not even have to believe in God to participate. As the noted atheist Bertrand Russel said, "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." However, this ministry is intended particularly for people with disabilities, the poor and the opressed.
Of course, it is not that we touch God, but that He first touches us. Over the last twenty-five years His touchings have resulted in poems and prayers which attest to His love. Getting in touch with God can also bring healing, perhaps physical, but more probably mental and spiritual. In particular, the Lord, often through the instrumentality of others, has healed me of depression and anxiety.
Nothing touches us more intimately than the air we breathe and in which we live and move and have our being. This vital touching has inspired a page on breathing in the Lord.
The Lord is now inspiring stories which are a blend of spirituality and science fiction. This is a continually growing structure, which you are invited to enjoy and comment upon.
Through the years He has also inspired aphorisms, which I am now collecting.
This Web site is run by a man who is deaf, blind, and a lover of prayer, meditation and solitude. I am a graduate of the Ministry Formation Program for Catholic Deaf Adults run by Sister Maureen Langton.
The Lord's touching has enabled me to offer, free of charge, Web sites to
other religious organizations serving people with disabilities as part of this
Internet ministry. At present these sites are:
Catholics with Disabilities
Ministry Formation Program.
Organizations wishing to take up this offer can either purchase their own domain names or settle for a Web address of the form "www.godtouches.org/myname". Please contact me at john@godtouches.org to make arrangements.
You can read a history of the godtouches Internet Ministry on another page on this site. But God's touching has not been confined to this Ministry. Twenty-five years ago it led me to dedicate my life to using my knowledge of computers to serve Him in our neighbors. I have run Computers to Help People, Inc. since 1981.
John J. Boyer
825 East Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53703
Send e-mail to
Webminister, john@godtouches.org.
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