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The Altar of Silence: On Contemplative Prayer as Love’s Own Offering (Lectio Divina)
There’s a moment in prayer when silence stops feeling like absence and starts feeling like it’s asking something of you. Contemplative prayer is not only stillness — it is an offering, one that asks you to stop holding anything back, even the part of you that wants credit for having given it. What happens…
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More Than We Can Handle: On Grace, the Cross, and the God Who Never Turns Away (Lectio Divina)
We are often told that God will not give us more than we can handle — but this is only partly true. In fact, God often gives us exactly more than we can handle: tests we cannot pass, crosses we cannot bear, laws we cannot follow on our own strength. And this is the…