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The First and Final Say: James Finley, Thomas Merton, and the Love That Named You (Lectio Divina)
How could you ever come to know a love you didn’t put there yourself? James Finley, echoing Thomas Merton, suggests that even our attempts to pray are already evidence of something moving in us before we ever reach for it. This reflection sits inside that unsettling possibility — that we are not the ones…
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The True Self and the False Self: On Identity, Exile, and the Grace That Reveals Us (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on James Finley’s Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, this Lectio Divina explores the relationship between the true self and the false self — how the false self conceals the light of the true self, how Paul’s language of the old and new self illuminates that dynamic, and how it is grace, not effort, that…
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The Still Small Voice and Korean Stew (Lectio Divina)
A Lectio Divina reflection on anxiety, identity, and transformation — drawn from a traffic jam on I-495, a podcast about Bonaventure, and a bowl of Korean stew. Drawing on Bonaventure’s Soul’s Journey into God, this post explores what it means when God refuses to take us back to who we once were, and why…