In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the centre of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I knew all these people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking […]
Prayer is the place where we sort out our desires and where we are ourselves sorted out by the desires we choose to follow. Barry and Ann Ulanov Facing our desires demands courage. It is in the end self-defeating to deny our desires – even our desire for the wrong things. Our desires are the […]
The imagination is a discovery faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new. Thomas Merton Image source: Jae-Im Kim We Are God’s Co-workers “Imagination bodies forth/The forms of things unknown”. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The imagination does not explain, but evokes. What is being called out from […]
Like Jacob waking up and exclaiming: “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it”, helping us realise that wherever we are “this [place] is the gate of heaven”. The goal of Christian life becomes not enlightenment but wholeness- an acceptance of this complicated and muddled bundle of experiences as a […]
Like Jacob waking up and exclaiming: “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it”, helping us realise that wherever we are “this [place] is the gate of heaven”. People are hungry for a different space of self-hearing and self-healing…Beyond the turmoil, a tenderness. Beyond the anger and bitterness, something akin […]
The dispositions, offered here … point to a way where we come to our true selves by going beyond ourselves, discovering who we really are through awareness, love, responsibility and commitment. _______________________________________ Negative capability…that is, when a man (sic) is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact or reason. […]
The dispositions, offered here … point to a way where we come to our true selves by going beyond ourselves, discovering who we really are through awareness, love, responsibility and commitment. Human living as it is normally perceived is an escape from reality. The gospel message is a recall to reality, revealed as a mystery […]
The dispositions, offered here … point to a way where we come to our true selves by going beyond ourselves, discovering who we really are through awareness, love, responsibility and commitment. Holiness means assuming total responsibility for all that we are and not simply for how we appear to other human beings. Donald Nicholl “Response” […]
Prayer is not telling God what to do, but becoming aware of just how intimately and immediately present God is to our world, to the ones we pray for and to ourselves. _______________________________ I want to beg you as much as I can…to be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try […]
Prayer is not telling God what to do, but becoming aware of just how intimately and immediately present God is to our world, to the ones we pray for and to ourselves. _____________________________ …Not only to know where you are but to learn to love what you find there. Kathleen Norris If, as you get […]