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The cultivated presence of God
This trip back through Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton has been slower. I’ve picked it up to read just a few pages, then put it down for awhile as I pondered something or I went back to reading other material. This past week I was walking through a difficult spiritual battle and picked up Merton again to read just…
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The aching remains
There’s a statue of JesusOn a monastery knollIn the hills of KentuckyAll quiet and coldHe’s kneeling in the gardenAs silent as a stoneAll his friends are sleepingAnd He’s weeping all aloneAnd the man of all sorrowsHe never forgotWhat sorrow is carriedBy the hearts that he boughtSo when the questions dissolveInto the silence of GodThe aching may remainBut the breaking does…
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The call of discipleship
There’s a war on. God is at work in our world; so are the forces of evil; and there really is no time or space for self-indulgent spiritualities that shirk the slightest personal cost, or even resist it on the grounds that all the desires and hopes one finds within one’s heart must be God-given and so must be realized……
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To know Christ fully
God wishes to be known, and is pleased that we should rest in him; for all that is beneath him is not enough for us; and this is the reason why no soul is at rest until it counts as nothing all that is created. When a soul has made itself as nothing for love, in order to have him…
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The simplicity of pursuing Christ
God take us back, the place we began The simple pursuit of nothing but you The innocence of a heart in your hands God take us back, oh God, take us back
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Epiphany and the Feast of Thomas Aquinas
In this season I have had sense of the Lord unfolding his glory to me, and his longing to keep unfolding his glory to his people. I noticed on a calendar that today is the Feast of Thomas Aquinas. I was reading a short biography of him here and this story jumped out to me:
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There isn’t a substitute
We are in the season of Epiphany. It is about the revealing of God’s glory. It is the Lord manifesting his glory among his people and among the nations. This is a season I am praying for a fresh unfolding of God’s glory in this dark world.
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Set them free
23 Jesus traveled throughout the region of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness. 24 News about him spread as far as Syria, and people soon began bringing to him all who were sick. And whatever their sickness or disease, or if they were demon possessed or…
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On the road — clinging to Jesus
We’ve been awhile on the road and I am looking forward to getting home in another week… even if Alabama is stupid hot. I was able to get out of that heat for almost three weeks, so I rejoice. And I will glad to be home as well.
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Soul journey
There are quotes and opening lines of books or articles that take my breath away. This one from Richard Foster did it for me this week: Oh, let me tell you how much God desires our presence. How much God longs to hear from us. How much God yearns to communicate with us. At the very heart of God is…
Tag: Spiritual hunger
