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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everythingto reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on the way to somethingunknown, something new.And yet it…

There is at the back of all our lives an abyss of light, more blinding and unfathomable than any abyss of darkness; and it is the abyss of actuality, of existence.  Of the fact that things truly are, and that…

It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificententerprise that is God’s…

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence . . . [and that is] activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to…

All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking activity and the body’s need for sleep. There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm…

If only for once it were still.   If the not quite right and the why this   could be muted, and the neighbour’s laughter,   and the static my senses make —   if all of it didn’t keep me from coming awake…

Steeling your heart, Yet what’s the use? . Already it’s stolen. Already the beloved Has captured the castle. . How defend yourself Against rapture? How protect yourself When the world And all the words In the Book Conspire against you?…

This song is a ballad. But really it’s a hymn.   It’s been a favourite of mine since I first heard it a decade ago. It’s written by Sting and he performs it with Mary J. Blige and it’s all…