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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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Beneath the Threat of Nothingness: Contemplative Prayer and the God Who Fills Every Void (Lectio Divina)
Contemplative prayer invites us into the darkness — into the silence and emptiness we most fear. Drawing on Meister Eckhart’s Sermon 4, this Lectio Divina reflection traces the movement from fear to trust: the fear of being alone and unloved, the surrender of everything we cling to, and the discovery that the vast emptiness…