A Grammar of Your Glory
O Lover, Recently a clause has been coming to me, “Awaken Me to You,” which both escorts into prayer and helps to fend off distractions, even while pointing in a dedicated direction. While paradoxically...
Monthly Archive: May 2024
Do I Love You or an Idea of You?
O Lover, I begin ambivalently, raising this prayer-post with hesitancy. As starters, there is a pandemic-like pattern of self-deception in our society regarding both religion and spirituality. Ideational and ideological idolatries abound with the...
“For Your Love Is Better Than Life”
O Lover, Across recent decades I have both begun and concluded the day with the praying of Psalm 63:1-8. Recently, just before Mass actually, I was skewered by the line “For Your love is...
Mary Oliver’s Query
[“And, if you have not been enchanted by this adventure—your life—what would do for you?” (Mary Oliver, “To Begin with, the Sweet Grass,” Devotions, 78)] O Lover, The question “is this all there is...
Getting to the “Yes” Beyond “Yes” and “No”
[“This is how we shall know that we are in the truth, and before God be assured in our heart even when that very heart condemns us: God is greater than our heart and...