God creates a wound only he can heal. It’s as if something (or someone) is attempting to disrupt the routine of my spirituality. To finally cast away all the words, thoughts, clichés, theology, knowledge, religion, Christianity–even “God”–in order to bring me to the Great Nothing (where God finds me). I have taken everything for granted.… Read More Week 23: the Great Nothing
“Piously we produce our images of you / till they stand around you like a thousand walls. / And when our hearts would simply open, / our fervent hands hide you.” – Rilke We want control. We crave it. Many of us want to be told what to believe, how to believe, how to live,… Read More Week 9: losing to find (part 2)
“In a world where people believe they are not hungry, we must not offer food but rather an aroma that helps them desire the food that we cannot provide…[we] must endeavor to be a question rather than an answer and an aroma rather than food.” Peter Rollins When I ask for answers, give me more… Read More Week 7: known over knowing
The following column is my most recent for HM Magazine. It’s a reflection of some things I have been pondering as of late. There will be more to follow, as I dig deeper into this idea of “knowing” and “seeing” in a new and different way… “I know that you can do all things, and… Read More Our Greatest Knowing
