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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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All Manner of Not-God: On Sabbath, Restlessness, and the Soul’s Hunger for God (Lectio Divina)
What drives us to labor — and what are we really searching for? Drawing on Beatrice of Nazareth’s account of the soul’s great torment of longing, this Sabbath Lectio Divina traces the spiritual root of all human desire: our soul’s yearning for infinite union with infinite God. Along the way it names the compulsions…