To recap on my previous post. Our hopeless romantic, love struck poet, hermit, and radically inclusive author activist was for a few brief moments sailing in the exhilarating waters of starry-eyed bliss. But whether he knew it or not, heading straight for the wrong side of the abyss. Perhaps this wild love affair could have […]
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To pick up where we left off in the previous post. Yep, you heard it right, our beloved book writing, beer drinking, champion of inclusion, and non-violence, fell head over heels in love aged fifty-three, with a nineteen-year-old nurse who had cared for him while he in hospital. After he recovered, the completely smitten Merton
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Just a quick recap from the previous post on our man, Merton. So, he’s about and about amongst the people one day when he gets zapped by the living God and realizes that all the decidedly ordinary folks around him have the light of the Spirit shining out from them like the sun. This experience
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“We are all people walking around shining like the sun.” – Thomas Merton. There is a beautiful and yet strangely ironic tale told by the modern mystic Thomas Merton. He was away for a day from his cloistered existence as a hermit Trappist monk—They’re seriously hardcore isolationists, those Trappist fellas—Out and about he had ventured,
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