My Amazon Review by FAITHGIBSON on JUNE 19, 2013 “Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood” is collection of 104 letters about the spiritually-uplifting experience of everyday life that can, with the gentlest of instruction and encouragement, become a dependable part of religion. The instructional letters in the LSB were written by many different authors and originally published in The […]
Contemplative Reading
I aspire to be a Class A, sure-enough ‘contemplative’ — i.e. play with the big boys. But the more accurate description of my zig-zag spiritual life put me in the category the “Occasional Contemplative”. Like an occasional tourist, I briefly visit that exotic distant land within my own soul, then I fall off the wagon […]
Grant us prudence in proportion to our power, Wisdom in proportion to our science, Humaneness in proportion to our wealth and might. Book of Hours, Thomas Merton; page 156, Kindle position 1504
Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and Judeo-Christian contemplative, is my hero. My One True Thing for today is sharing his astonishing thoughts on ‘the still point of presence’, which he calls “le point vierge” or ‘the virgin point’ of the spirit, where one meets G*D, and which is the glory of G*D in us — “a pure […]
