Our Need For a Judas – Apr. 4, 2023
“We all need someone to draw off the demonic in us. We still need someone to blame, someone on whom we can project our own fears and phantoms. How often have we hear a parent say, “that child will be the death of me!” Or one marriage partner say of another, “I should have known […]
Tips for Travelers – Mar. 2, 2023
“One of the advantages of age, at least as I am experiencing it, is that stuff doesn’t matter nearly so much as I once thought, indeed, as I was reared to value it. Perhaps the great sin of relative affluence is the urge to hoard, to hold on tight if not to acquire more, telling […]
Go to the Desert – Feb. 1, 2023
“I realized how easy it is for me, when I face challenges, to want to turn to external answers or quick fixes to cover up my difficulties. But that doesn’t always work. In fact, it rarely works. What I need to do is go to my poustinia, to the desert of my heart (and a physical […]
Saboteurs – Jan. 26, 2023
“We need a foil, an enemy, an external embodiment of the part of us that is limiting our growth on the path. With a raging saboteur in our lives, tromping all over our neediest, limiting parts, we can no longer deny our self-limiting tendencies. With an external force causing the pain, we eventually recognize the […]
