Tag: inner wounds
Healing, pain, purgation
Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain… Read More ›
Will we manifest
When I was young, many years ago, though it seems like yesterday; I thought I was in control, centered, strong and together. I don’t know how I thought this, it seems amazing that I could have been so callow, yet I was young after all. As the years pile up, so does my experience with… Read More ›
The prayer journey
Whose wounds do we bear? Do we bear the wounds of Christ? Or does Christ bear our wounds? When I was a very young monk, just 23 and in the Monastery for only a year, we had a reading one day at our midday office by Thomas Merton that blind-sighted me and created a great… Read More ›
The road towards healing
We are healed of suffering only by experiencing it to the full. By Marcel Proust From Days of Healing-Days of hope Published by Hazelden How I wish healing was as easy as stepping into a shower, soaping up and then rinsing off. Afterwards there is a feeling of refreshment and cleansing. Life does not seem… Read More ›