Befriending Reality – Jan. 3, 2019
“Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity—taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages. In this sense, spiritual life is a reasonable, reality-based pursuit. It can have mystical entry points and destinations, to be sure. But it is in the end about […]
Bringing Jesus Along
I’ve never shared this story before: it comes from the tomboy contemplative I was when I was young. Back then, Missouri nights tended to be oppressively hot and humid, and there were few ways to escape the swelter. My father would take the family on car rides, so at least we’d all feel some breeze […]
June 21, 2018
“What we usually call the real world is not Real at all. It is a flaky as they come. Laugh at it; weep over it; pray for it; take every opportunity to expose it; seek to redeem it. But never make the fatal mistake of thinking it is Real.” -N. Gordon Cosby, Seized by the […]
June 19, 2018
“There is a surface level of reality and a deeper level, the level of perfect peace, wonder and surprise. This deeper level can be touched now, not only at some later opportune moment. The surface swirls with events, circumstances, problems, worries. Its tasks seem impossible and overwhelming. In the deeps, something else is taking place.” […]
