Tag: Dohle
The most important project
Those who speak the truth, who unmask and show their listeners what is underneath, are often hated, reviled, hounded and killed. Martin Luther King for an instance is still hated by many because he stripped away the mask of segregation and demanded that dignity be restored to his people…. in order to do this he often… Read More ›
Prejudices and bigotry (part 2)
(return to part 1) I remember one day, I saw a women and her small son stranded near a traffic light on Hwy 212, near were I live. She was from a different race and I was hesitant to stop because of how I look. I have a very long beard and hair and some… Read More ›
Lent
Lent can be a dreary time for me, Ash Wednesday, a day of inner cold and restless wandering, from one inner space to another. Bread and water, so hard for me to take, yet I do and try to pray, seeking to ignore the gnawing hunger . A time when my inner darkness becomes my… Read More ›
Caring
Coldness protects the heart, though in the end it imprisons, for pain and love waltz together as the years wind down and life takes it toll. Is it not glorious, wonderful beyond all telling, that we can love, our hearts expanding, until yes they break and the tears flow. Some fear this, yet what would… Read More ›
Purpose
Inner pain is a far from rare experience for humans. Being self-aware comes with a high cost that often causes the inner self, or soul or consciousness to bleed. Perhaps our first step towards being unique personalities with a personal perspective starts when we first experience pain. For it is then, when we are torn… Read More ›
Ashes (Ash Wednesday)
To think of ash, is to enter into the reality of endings, absurdity and temporality; bringing to mind that everything in life that we often work and strive for, is in reality a dead end, a waste of time and even if truth be told, if actually thought about, not worth the effort. I think… Read More ›
Never too late
There are different types of beauty that are often noticed by individuals but perhaps ignored by the overall culture. There is the vibrant beauty of youth, which is of course noticed by our culture and idolized to the point of actually causing harm. Young men and women with an inner glow and vibrancy that perhaps… Read More ›
Lacerated (A prayer for all in inner pain)
You see Lord my struggle, sometimes I think I am drowning, I pray for a loving heart, yet so much violence, hatred, the desire to hurt dwells within. Why do I want to lash out beloved? Am I really so evil, shattered within; will I go under, devoured by my own inner hungry and rapacious… Read More ›
The Touch
In the world are many things, some pleasant, others very repulsive; There is human warmth, and demonic cold heartedness, and some who are indifferent; Empathy and compassion exist along side hearts and minds armored, dead to the pain of others. Those who flee from pain and then others who love to inflict it; Good mothers,… Read More ›
Hands
God touches the world through our hands, rough hands to build, gentle hands to soothe pain, fear and anxiety, artistic hands to show God’s beauty; hands to write prose, poetry and theology, each used to manifest Christ in the world, gifts differing, yet all flow from the same spirit. Br. Mark Dohle, OCSO Holy Spirit… Read More ›