Tag Archive for ‘Holy Spirit Monastery’
Parental pain
Last Sunday Tom came up to me and gave me a note. It was from a woman who wanted to speak to me about the loss of her son. From the note I learned that he was only 33 years old and died from cancer. So I started over to the retreat house praying that [...]
The Splinter
Gossip is so common and is so easily done that those who do it (myself of course included) don’t understand the evil that is committed towards others, until of course they are the victims. We are all powerless before back stabbing, gossip and talk that can ruin us. Evil said spreads easily, it can’t be stopped…. it [...]
Prone to violence
I am a man prone to violence. All of my life I have swam against this current, though it has often been difficult. I understand violence; I also understand that there is a part of me that desires love, healing and peace. I also believe that the so called cosmic war between good and evil is lived out [...]
The most important time of life
Getting older is not easy for one by one, aspects of our physical selves are lost that when young, were taken for granted. As we age we are all called upon to find inner reserves that allow us to deal with this slow decline with grace, if not with ease. It is a daily choice [...]
Outburst
I suppose that many people at one time or another has trouble in dealing with very powerful emotions. They seem to have a life of their own these emotional reactions, coming to birth it seems explosively at times, or slowly building, until some form of expression must be articulated, often in destructive ways. I know [...]
That first step
Corners can be a good place to be, yet mostly not. Backed into slowly over the years, with elbows hitting opposite walls, tight, a self created prison, with only one way out, yet often not seen. Looking out from one’s narrow perch, with no place to turn, unless one just wants to show their back; [...]
Bright flame
Sometimes it can’t be helped, two world views collide, for many reasons, some too deep to understand. Yet we still try, rifts come into play, words spoken, emotions flare, and two people walk away from each other thinking the other wrong. Sometimes the divide is simply so wide that no bridge can be built, the [...]
Just one look
It was early morning when the day still fresh, the air cool and hope was in the air, before fatigue could set in or disappointment change the days youthful texture, that is when I saw him, sitting peacefully, he was old, in his seventies I would say, with a glorious beard golden in color suffused [...]
Talk on Anger, rage and resentment
We pick up things in our lives. Some of them are life giving, healing and helpful for us as we make our journey. Other events happen to us that weigh us down, burden us and pick at our souls like a bee trapped in our ear. A constant buzz which drains and further wounds our [...]
Yes (God is faithful)
The myth of the spiritual life is that we will one day reach perfection. If this is not believed consciously, then it is often operating on an unconscious level. For after all did not Jesus say: “Be you perfect as your Father is perfect”? So willpower (the will-to-power), can become the central operative in this [...]
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