God-sufficiency not self-sufficiency, Rebellion is a must Few things run more counter to the constant craving of my ego-self than personal powerlessness. Yet in my experience, nothing brings me more deep inner peace than letting go of power and control. It is the price that must be paid if I want to live a life […]
Radically Redeeming Ordinariness I was born on the cusp of dawn, near back of beyond, on the silent banks of a lonesome lake where rainbow trout swim wild and free. Fed since birth of a strict diet of poetry and song about Ireland’s rebel cause. Weakness and surrender were simply nowhere to be found in
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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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