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Becoming Love’s Flame: On Surrender and the Living Flame of Love (Lectio Divina)
We spend so much of our lives trying to earn a closeness we already have — convinced that if we work hard enough, pray hard enough, behave well enough, we might finally close the distance between ourselves and God. This reflection sits with St. John of the Cross’s strange claim that one small act…
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Lie Down, Be Still: The Gift of Sabbath Rest in Christ (Lectio Divina)
In this Lectio Divina reflection, Robert Van Valkenburgh begins with a friend’s confession that his life feels like a hamster on a wheel — spinning under the weight of obligations, responsibilities, and everyone else’s needs and agendas. From this honest moment of recognition, the post moves into a meditation on Sabbath not as idleness…