in all its sublime majesty, is subject to impermanence. Once this is accepted, Merton is liberated from autumnal sadness, and a measure of Edenic summer knowledge is restored. He can live in the given moment, accepting its blessings with a peaceful, unanxious heart. ...
Christmas, New Years NEW YEAR For the secular world, New Year’s Day is full of resolutions: we will eat less, drink less, exercise more, be more generous, less greedy, better in every way. But for Christians, it’s also about blessings. The scripture readings for the…Novalis Seeds of...
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I don’t want to go very far down that road on Christmas Day. The twelve days of Christmas are a time for celebration and feasting, carols and good cheer, light hearts and extravagant hopes, joy and wonder, and lots of love. But I do want to share a poem by Luci Shaw, a Christian...
Both liberal and conservative clerics were involved in calling for him to go Because Welby came from the Evangelical wing of the Church, one might now expect an archbishop from the liberal wing. And yet if liberals hope for a leader who would conduct and promote gay blessings, or even usher...
This special time of year is an occasion for celebrating our blessings with family and friends and for looking ahead to the promise of the new year with hope and excitement. My family and I would like to offer our best wishes to you and yours for a joyful holiday season, filled with hea...
The governing images of the final quatrain, “season’d timber” and “turned to coal,” each call up a constellation of meanings. Timber suggests both the cedars of Lebanon and the cross. And the seasoning of wood represents the testing of the soul, which, by God’s grace, “never give...
blessings and curses. Choose life.[vii] In his novelUnderworld, Don DeLillo chillingly mixes and confuses the primal images of divine and diabolical light when a nun, lifted out of herself into the informational totality of the Internet, has a visionary experience on a website devoted to the...
“I see rich people, voluptuous, arrogant Yin energy, Biao He disrespect, lack of filial piety is not loyal, not brother and chief do not believe swagger line, leaning against the potential bullying the poor, not the seeds of blessings, it does not repair the moral, Putian biological, ...
the stories that nourish, the stories that save. But she always lived out her calling with levity and lightness. Everyone who has known her remembers her laughter, her joy, her delight in daily blessings, her generous and irrepressible spirit. As she liked to put it, she was “subject to...