Musing Mystic Blog

“Seek and you will surely find.”

Wounded Places, Beautiful Spaces I can’t say exactly when on my spiritual journey that the notion that the heart is the epicenter …

Nothing binds us together like tears of the heart My heart immediately felt the crushing despair flowing like a river through the …

The mingling of our innate humanity with the spirit deep down within   A Spiritual Awakening can be like a rude awakening, sudden, …

The long tale of the Great-Spirit At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. …

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi. Like it or not, we nearly all get to take …

So, I’m sitting in a room in Brisbane Australia, nearly thirty years ago taking twelve step calls from people who are, you …

To recap on my previous post. Our hopeless romantic, love struck poet, hermit, and radically inclusive author activist was for a few …

To pick up where we left off in the previous post. Yep, you heard it right, our beloved book writing, beer drinking, …

Just a quick recap from the previous post on our man, Merton. So, he’s about and about amongst the people one day …

“We are all people walking around shining like the sun.” – Thomas Merton. There is a beautiful and yet strangely ironic tale …

The God of Peace

“The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.” – Thomas Merton. If we are looking for a moniker for the …

God is With Us

“The best thing of all is God is with us.” – John Wesley. Eventually, on my journey, ravaged and broken as it …