Excarnation or Incarnation?
O Lover, Of the myriad of issues punctuating the faith journey of this trekker, one repeatedly presents itself as primary; the relationship of You, Source and Fount, with the cosmic effluence of which I...
Prayers in Winter Blog
Aging as Separation or Link?
[“The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction” (Meister Eckhart, OP (c.1260-1328]).] [“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing that...
Ave Maria
O Lover, Well You know that Marian issues have sometimes stuck in my craw. Entering the Catholic orb in mid-life, I came predisposed. As a child and youth I was taught that Catholics worshipped...
In Gratitude for Murray Rogers (1917-2006)
[Mary V. T. Cattan’s Pilgrimage of Awakening: the Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2016) is a rich study of an Anglican missionary couple who went to India in 1948....
Unítas Déi and Time
O Lover, My periodic inclination to “play god” notwithstanding, I am a finite, a creature, one not self-generating, self-sustaining, or self-culminating. This means, among other things, that I am delimited, whether bedazzlingly or confiningly,...
Spirituality Beyond the Egoic
O Lover, Most of us begin movement into more intentional faith for reasons strongly laced with self-interest, whether to escape gehénna, address existential meaninglessness, or respond to aging anxieties. In the early phases this...
Enlarging the Canopy
[Powers, Richard, The Overstory (NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018 [Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2019]).] [“I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree. . . .Poems are...
Regarding Thánatos
[“O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” (I Cor 15:55)] O Lover, In my eighty-fourth year, I live with ample awareness of mortality. The relentless waning of somatic and...
O Beauty Itself!
[“(God) brought things into being in order that (God’s) goodness might be communicated to creatures, and be represented by them; and because (God’s) goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, (God) produced...
Musings on Being Duped
[“You duped me, O LORD, and I let myself be duped. You were too strong for me, and You triumphed. . . . If I say, ‘I will not mention God, nor speak any...