More Loving in My Heart – July 13, 2018
“I want to be more loving in my heart! It is often easy to see it with my mind, and give assent to the thought of being loving. But I want to be more loving in my heart! So I must ease the tension in my heart that ejects the sharp barb, the stinging word. […]
How Does Healing Happen?
“How does healing happen?” I asked my dad, a seasoned country doctor in general practice. “It’s an inside job,” he said with a wink. “Medicine helps of course, but the body heals from its own resources. We honestly don’t know all that much about how the immune system works, or why healing happens better for […]
June 29, 2018
“Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can’t think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.” -Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life Etty lived lived in […]
June 28, 2018
“There is a really deep well inside me. And in it dwells God. Sometimes I am there too. But more often stones and grit block the well, and God is buried beneath.” -Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life Etty lived lived in the Netherlands in the 1940’s, down the street from Anne Frank, and died at the […]
