Musing Mystic Blog

“Seek and you will surely find.”

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

We cannot do God and do violence.

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 …

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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 …

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“Seeking the female face of God releases divine mystery from its age-old patriarchal cage so that God can be truly God.” – …

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“Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.” – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Recently, the little place I had been renting for many …

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It’s game on time, let healing games begin! Deep in the Heart, every mystery of spirit is hidden. – Rumi. If you regularly …

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The She Spirit God

I know a priest who has the unusual habit, for a Roman-collared fella, of always replacing ‘He’ with ‘She’ when reading biblical …

Solidarity, however, is a whole different ball game, not least, because it is a must do in any serious spiritual practice. It goes much deeper and wider than mere self-interest and the current cause of this or that affiliation. It is a totally other-centered, boundless active doing thing. 

We must learn to live together as sisters & brothers or we will all perish together as fools” – Martin Luther King, …

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Sing like no one’s listening…, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth. – Mark Twain. Oh, to live and move and be like that! To be so free from …