Prayers in Winter

[“On my bed I remember You, on You I muse through the night, . . .” (Ps 63:8).] [“(T)he temple was filling with smoke. Then I said, . . .’my eyes have seen the...

[“I only know that I did not know what love was until I encountered one that kept opening and opening and opening. And until I acknowledged that what that love was opening onto, and...

[“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him” (Bill Wilson, “Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous” [#3], EA).] O Lover, My early encounters with...

[“Philip said to Jesus, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us’” (Jn 14:8).] [“Solo Dios basta” (Terésa de Jesús).] O Lover, The thrust of the above text has over...

O Lover,  Richard Rohr said this in a recent interview: “There’s an angel walking the streets of the world, and he’s got a torch in one hand and a pail of water in the...

O Lover, To us humans from myriad faith traditions You are The One beyond all depiction, whether via reason, language, image, imagining or the affective. You are sans form, transcendent of finite expression. In this...

O Lover, The current morass of our society’s use and abuse of religion, Jesus in particular, has of late been nudging me toward a revisit to Alfie’s question “What’s it all about?” In our...

[“(B)ecause God’s goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting to one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied...

O Lover, In this my late autumn assorted oppositional tensions (e.g., paradoxes and dialectics, ironies and seeming oxymorons) are surfacing with greater frequency. In retrospect, life is shown to be an oscillation between negation...

[“I did not see God, for that would have blinded me, but I saw the bending of the grasses at the passing of the hem of His garments” (Sophy Burnham, b. 1936).] O Lover,...