Author: ambushee

[“The mystery of the Word’s descent is meant to ‘amaze’ the Soul into loss of self and perfect obedience to the Father’s will” (Bernard McGinn regarding Marguerite of Porete’s The Mirror of Simple Annihilated...

[“Hello darkness, my old friend / I’ve come to talk with you again . . .” (from “The Sound of Silence” by Paul Simon, 1964).] [Barbara Dent, My Only Friend Is Darkness: Living the...

O Lover, A landmark theological question debated in the late Medieval and Renaissance periods was this: if  human’s “fall” had not occurred, would the Incarnation of the Christ have taken place? In other words,...

[“I am the vine that fills your cup with joy” (from “Take and Eat” by Fr. Michael Joncas [b. 1951]).] O Lover, One of the richer images in biblical writings is that of wine....

[“Although (Jesus) was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God as something to be clutched, but poured himself out, taking the form of a servant . . .” (Phil...

Embedded in Psalm 63:1-8, the prayer with which I begin and conclude each day, is this: “Your love is better than life” (3). The Hebrew term translated as “love” is hésed (khéh-sed), a lush...

[Inspired by Genesis 32:22-32, the blogger experienced this post as seemingly writing itself during a week-long hospitalization following a cardiac episode at the end of August.] O Mysterious One,  I am Jacob, and this...

O Lover, In my initial engagement with the spirituality of Juan de la Cruz thirty years ago I became enamored by the theme of apophática (“imagelessness”). I subsequently found myself gleaning from his writings...

O You, Finally, Beyond Names, At about the two-thirds juncture of my life I began addressing You primarily in the second grammatical person as “Lover.” I did this having reached a tipping point regarding...

O Lover, One of the formative issues in my faith journey is captured by the title of J. B. Phillips’ Your God Is Too Small (1953) which I first read in college. Insofar as...