Dying to Know You
Old streets don’t lead back where they used toWe blaze new trails to ancient placesI still love You just like I used toBut this love…
The Vindication of Feeling
The vindication of the importance of feeling in our life, and in particular its primacy over reason in all that has to do with man’s…
On Gambling
To a frog that’s never left his pond the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he’s giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition!…
Like Weather . . . Each Moment Unfolding As It Does
Dearly Beloved,Grace and Peace to you. Days are longer now,birds sing sweetly,daffodils sway brightly,and a storm dumps four inches of snowand a tree on our house.On…
The Way that is Strait and Narrow
AN ELDER was asked: What does it mean, this word we read in the Bible, that the way is strait and narrow? And the elder…
The Primacy of Love
Charity and hospitality were matters of top priority (for the Desert Fathers), and took precedence over fasting and personal ascetic routines. The countless sayings which…
On the Way . . . Not Yet Arrived
Most of the characters represented in these sayings and stories are men who are “on the way” to purity of heart rather than men who…
Exchanging One False Self For Another
What the (Desert) Fathers sought most of all was their own true self, in Christ. And in order to do this, they had to reject…
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Via our machines— be it phone, television, or computer— we receive an enormous amount of information every day. But we don’t have the time, the…
Waiting In This Darkness
The first time you practice contemplation, you’ll only experience a darkness, like a cloud of unknowing. You won’t know what this is. You’ll only know…