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The heart

It is all about the heart in the end; the longing, seeking, our fears and hopes, are in truth centered in the heart, which in spite of its narcissism is called to grow into infinity. Hidden in darkness grace does it’s silent work not allowing rest such is the hearts gnawing, an unending arid region… Read More ›

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A wonder

I find it a wonder how we as a species seem to live out the same pattern over and over again, generation after generation without seeming to be able to change or learn.  Well perhaps we are learning but it seems at such a pace that it may be too late to save us.  I… Read More ›

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Angel of Life

My beauty is my openness, for I am without form, for how can compassion love and empathy be constrained. I am the one who calls you to embrace all that you are, your darkness is your pathway into deeper mystery, your path of light a dark one, placing one foot in front of the other,… Read More ›

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The Judge

There are different types of judgment.  The one most often thought of, is when someone stands before an actual magistrate with some kind of sentence being handed out.  This is a form of justice and in the United States, one is considered innocent until proven guilty.  It is not actually about truth, but about swaying… Read More ›

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Absurdity

When I was young, I came upon the quote: “life is absurd”. I am pretty sure it was from Camus, for I spent some time in my middle twenties reading him extensively, for a year or so. I think I kind of got it, yet as I get older this quote has become more and… Read More ›

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Turning Point

Choices are very important, for they give directions to out lives and allow focus to result.  Moments of choice are important for without them life can become something meaningless, leading nowhere, just endless cycles of the same. Important as our choices are, they also cause other avenues that could have been chosen to be put… Read More ›

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What has always been

I think most people get a jump start when little, projecting them out of the Garden of Eden, and suddenly finding themselves naked and vulnerable.  An event happens that colors the rest of life, either for good or ill.  Perhaps it is the first time we really wake up to the unfairness and cruelty that… Read More ›

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Partaking in the Sorrow of Christ

In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus told his disciples to wait while he went a little further to pray, for he said to them “my soul is sorrowful unto death”. I have often read over that statement without looking back, or even trying to even if for a moment to understand what that meant, or… Read More ›

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