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Sit Down, Be Still: The Cloud of Unknowing and the Craving for God (Lectio Divina)Template
What do you do with a thought that sounds holy? The Cloud of Unknowing insists that even our longing to understand God can become one more voice to release, one more thing standing between us and the God we crave.
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Fleeing the God Who Waits: Thomas Merton, Distraction, and Love (Lectio Divina)
We fill our hours with noise because silence has come to feel unbearable — and then wonder why the restlessness never lifts. Thomas Merton named this flight for what it is: a mechanism built into modern life itself, geared to carry us away from God and into what he called the wilderness of neurosis.…
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God’s Deepest Desire Is You: On Distraction, Idols, and Returning to Silence (Lectio Divina)
What if the constant pull of a distracted life — every door that opens, every remark that isn’t yours to hear — has been quietly rerouting the very desire that was made for God alone? This reflection sits with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton’s question about the interior life and asks what it would take…