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The Cry From The Cross: God Longs for Us as We Long for God (Lectio Divina)
A Lectio Divina reflection on the cry of desolation — drawing on James Finley’s insight that our longing for God is an echo of God’s infinite longing for us. Meditating on Christ’s cry from the cross as an act of divine solidarity, this post traces God’s pursuit of humanity through all of history and…
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Waiting for You Who Never Left: On Longing, Absence, and God’s Unceasing Love (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Karl Rahner’s image of the Silent Infinite, this Lectio Divina explores the ache of divine absence — the longing we feel when God seems far away, and the faith that sustains us through it. A meditation on the paradox at the heart of the contemplative life: that the love we feel is…
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You Awakened Me: Prayer, Longing, and the God Who Is Always Near (Lectio Divina)
A Lectio Divina meditation on the ache of divine awakening — the experience of being drawn toward God, only to find him near yet unreachable, known yet beyond knowing. Drawing on John Calvin and the apophatic tradition, this piece traces the paradox of a love that gives itself freely while remaining just out of…