Finding the Presence of God The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. — Brother Lawrence We might refer to this age-old mystic mantra in our time as God-consciousness, awakened life, spiritual awareness, mindfulness, or the like. As I write these few lines, I can hear birds just […]
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Undone, struck dumb, muted tongue So, I’m sitting in a room in Brisbane Australia, nearly thirty years ago taking twelve step calls from people who are, you know, on the serious end of the booze hound spectrum. Now you don’t get to be answering calls like that unless you’ve been a repeat-offender serious booze hound
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Come What May, Love of Fate (Amor Fati) I felt my old heart stir and tears well up in my eyes as I embraced this beautiful niece of mine, for the first time, just before her twenty-ninth birthday. My brother had not fared must better in terms of connection with his daughter. She’d gone to
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Out of suffering compassion is born There’s just no damn doubt about it comrades, in this life there will be a whole series of devastating losses. To use the cliché “shit happens,” and for many people it hits the fan big time, regularly. Speaking to a very dear friend a while ago who lost her
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