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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 completely the false, formal self, fabricated under social compulsion in “the world” . . .…

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 energy, and the emotional resilience to deal with all of this information. We do triage…

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 that in your will you feel a simple reaching out to God.  You must also…

But where is this true possession of God, whereby we really possess him, to be found? This real possession of God is to be found in the heart, in an inner motion of the spirit towards him and striving for…

If you are in the middle of your life, maybe some of your dreams of God have died hard under the weight of your experience. You have knocked on doors that have not opened. You have asked for bread and…

A story is like water that you heat for your bath. . It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet, and it cleans you! Very few can sit down in the middle of the fire…

Guess I’d get along without you If I had no choice It’s taken me this long to find you Done a lot of getting ready for this Some things we learn so slow But look at you, you’ve got plenty…

Although I have spent a lot of my life in jobs that require me to speak for God, I am still reluctant to do it for all kinds of reasons. In the first place, I have discovered that people who…