“Lord, I seek mystery, not a mishmash of existential thoughts, symbols and trendy quips. I cannot contain you, cannot begin to plumb the depths of your love, let alone the perplexing ways you work in the world. To one you heal, the other dies. Mother’s cry, fathers fume at the injustice they see. Where is…
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The Deeper Root–How God uses Silence
In the winter of 2005 we were living in New York, in a house with good bones, but poor insulation. It was bitter cold in the attic that night. I knelt before a candle, under a blanket, and prayed against an urgency which pressed like gusts of wind against my contemplative desires. I agonized for…
To Sir, with love 