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The True Self and the False Self: On Identity, Exile, and the Grace That Reveals Us (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on James Finley’s Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, this Lectio Divina explores the relationship between the true self and the false self — how the false self conceals the light of the true self, how Paul’s language of the old and new self illuminates that dynamic, and how it is grace, not effort, that…
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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…
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The Gift of Wonder: Letting Go of Certainty and Resting in Mystery (Lectio Divina)
We spend so much of our lives grasping for certainty — as if knowing enough could protect us from pain, loss, or the sheer vastness of what we cannot control. But what if the part of us that demands to know is not the deepest part of us at all? Drawing on Serene Jones,…
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Silenced by Love: Finding Our True Identity in Christ (Lectio Divina)
We defend ourselves because we believe our identity can be injured by words. But the part of us that is wounded, offended, and exhausted is not the part of us where God abides. Drawing on the silence of Christ before His accusers and the contemplative wisdom of Father Malachy Napier, this post traces the…