Dining with Demons
It has always seemed to me that what the Bible calls demon possession* looks a lot like mental illness. Because it runs deeply in my family, I have learned to live with cyclical depression, which periodically disorders my thinking like an inner demon that wants to drive me to ruin. After so many years, I […]
Nothing Can Trouble – June 6, 2022
Nothing can trouble,nothing can frighten.Those who seek God shallnever go wanting. Nothing can trouble,nothing can frighten.God alone fills us. –St. Teresa of Avila, as translated by the Taize community
When Not Governed By Fear – May 19, 2022
“Old age and wisdom usually go together, because when you’ve been through the treadmill of experience you know what counts. You know the chaff from the real grain that brings nourishment. Old people have great wisdom and great light, and when they are not governed by fear there is incredible permission in them.” –John O’Donohue, Walking […]
What else do we want, except to be loved – Apr. 4, 2022
“Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these times of tension and strife which may at any moment become for us all a time of terror, I think to myself, “What else is the world interested in?” What else do we all want, each one […]
