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The Desert Of No Obvious Name: On Addiction, Recovery, and Spiritual Malady (Lectio Divina)
Most of us know the saying from recovery circles: don’t get too hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. It is practical wisdom for the alcoholic and addict. But this post asks whether it is something more — whether hunger, anger, loneliness, and exhaustion are not just warnings for those in recovery, but the universal conditions…
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What We Love We Shall Grow to Resemble: On Love, Forgiveness, and the Soul’s Formation (Lectio Divina)
What we love, we shall grow to resemble. Drawing on Bernard of Clairvaux, the Dhammapada, the Sermon on the Mount, and Paul’s letter to the Romans, this Lectio Divina meditation traces the quiet logic of the soul’s formation through its own outpouring. It is not what is done to us that damages the soul,…
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The Ledges We Cling To And The Holy Longing That Will Not Let Us Go (Lectio Divina)
What do a drug addict’s first high, an alcoholic’s first drunk, and the soul’s restless searching have in common? They are all, in their own way, an answer to the call of holy longing — a longing that God placed in us before we knew we had it. Drawing on Karl Rahner’s theology of…
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Scriptio: I Assume It Was Grace
Thirty days before my nineteenth birthday, I entered rehab. Looking back, I still don’t know how I found the courage to go. At first, I was willing because I had nowhere else to turn. I had no home to speak of. I was barely getting by, working at McDonald’s, making enough money to eat…