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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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Our Life Is Our Prayer Life: On Spiritual Growth, Daily Chores, and the God We Meet in One Another (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Patrick Hart’s foreword to James Finley’s Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, this Lectio Divina explores how our truest spiritual growth is revealed not in our devotional practices but in our everyday relationships and ordinary circumstances. From Teresa of Avila’s pots and pans to Brother Lawrence’s practice of the presence, from Paul’s call to…