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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 energy, and the emotional resilience to deal with all of this information. We do triage…
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 that in your will you feel a simple reaching out to God. You must also…
A God Beyond Our Thoughts
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…
Time for a Walk in the Dark
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…
Story Water
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…
One of the Best Ones
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…
There is no speech, nor are there words . . .
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…
For the Beloved Delights in You
Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you. You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Beloved delights in you, and your land…