How Does it Help? – Sep. 2, 2020
For how does it help a human beingto know diversity and abundance outsidebut lack an inner life? –Neil Douglas-Klotz, The Hidden Gospel, p. 115. Alternate reading of Matthew 16:26 “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” (KJV)
The Essence of Desire – July 21, 2020
I did nothave to ask my heart what it wanted,because of all the desires I have ever known just one did I cling tofor it was the essence ofall desire: to know beauty. –St. John of the Cross, Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, trans. Daniel Ladinsky, p. 314
Journeying Soul – Jan. 30, 2020
“When your ship, long moored in harbor, gives you the illusion of being a house… Put out to sea! Save your boat’s journeying soul, and your own pilgrim soul, cost what it may.” —Hélder Câmara
Grace Given Freely – Dec. 12, 2019
“God resists our evil and conquers it with good, or how could God ask the same of us?! Think about that. God shocks and stuns us into love. God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change. Only love effects true inner transformation, not duress, guilt, shunning, or […]
