Snippets of these excerpts are used in Befriending One’s Soul, because they inspired my response to my Sistah’s wonderful challenge. Life is hard, and yet Jesus says, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28). It is hard to bear God—but it is even harder not to bear God. The pain oneContinue reading “Poetic prose on rest, from Rohr”
Category Archives: mysticism
Noah and his damned movies irk my soul
When Noah seems to adhere to the norms of a 16-year-old young man, it is coincidence, not conformity.
Ode to a Sacred Twig – An exercise for the soul
Things are sanctified by our own endowment, sanctifying us
Advent Prequel to Footprints
An expression how the ways of the world yield brokenness as the cellar door to The Way
Where will I meet God today
As they departed for school, I asked: “Noah, where will you look for God today?” His older brother, not intended as part of the conversation, but being his older brother, of course, despite having a mouthful of toothpaste, interrupted: “I hope I’ll find him taking my physics test for me…”
Feel with Neil 