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Remembered Before We Remember: Hyperichius on Grace and the Wandering Mind (Lectio Divina)
What does it actually mean to keep your mind on God when your own mind cannot be trusted to stay there? A single line from the desert father Hyperichius sets an impossible task, and then quietly reveals whose task it was never meant to be.
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Against You in Secret: Teresa of Ávila on the Illusion of Hiddenness from God (Lectio Divina)
Teresa of Ávila warns that the real danger isn’t sin committed in the open — it’s the quiet conviction that something can be done against God in secret. David believed that too, once. So did Aaron, when the people he led grew afraid and he gave them something to see instead of someone to…