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To Simply Be: Evelyn Underhill and the Sabbath Beneath Our Striving (Lectio Divina)
Most of us spend our lives conjugating three verbs — to want, to have, and to do — until the wanting becomes its own kind of unrest. Evelyn Underhill named the verb beneath all of it: to be. This reflection sits with what it costs to stop, and what’s waiting for us in the…
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The Darkness That Leads To Light: On Sabbath And Trust (Lectio Divina)
Sabbath is not just a day. It is a practice — and at the heart of that practice is something most of us quietly resist: trust. Evelyn Underhill’s words cut to the center of it: the voice of God is very gentle, and we cannot hear it if we let other voices compete. But…
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Lectio: The Rising Sap
Evelyn Underhill beautifully distinguishes faith, hope, and charity: faith perceives reality, charity loves it, while hope looks forward with love to what will be. Faith is steady and rooted like a great tree, but hope is dynamic—ever growing, like a rising sapling and buds preparing to bloom. This reflection highlights the living movement of…