Month: November 2020

House-Sitting for God

“It struck me that this life that I believe is mine, that I am sure belongs to me, is not mine at all.  I’m taking care of a property that really belongs to God.”

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Fragments on Fragments #16: Being Human in a Pandemic

“Heraclitus’ vision pushes us away from a competitive view of our identity, and that’s a significant counterweight to the individualism which so insidiously infects us, whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not. The other is not our enemy, but the one we may need in order to hear the word which will speak to us.”

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Thankful for Being Here

“…that miracles surround us, but we miss them most of the time. We make it harder on ourselves to see the abundance of miracles that crowd around us because we too often look for the dazzling, the shockingly out of place.”

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Devotion

“There is only one reason for the monk’s existence: not farming, not chanting the psalms … not fasting, not manual labor, not reading, not meditation, not vigils in the night, but only God.” (Thomas Merton)

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