I commend to you all the chapter in Barbara Brown Taylor’s, Altar to the World, about prayer. She describes her difficulty with prayer, and if she has problems, you and I shouldn’t feel so bad about our own sense of inadequacy in this area. She turns to  two monks who help her. The first is…

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On my weekend retreat I had the opportunity to spend a few moments with two Tibetan followers of the Dali Llama and one of the Angola three. We talked about our mutual experiences with solitude and solitary. Nouwen says we cannot seriously experience  a spiritual life if we do not set aside some time to…

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Forgive me Luis for getting this wrong, but my memory is that you say, “believe as much as you can, and that’s sufficient for God.” Close? Another way to put it might be that God allows us to know all we need. No more is given to us than is necessary to lead us to his perfection.…

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Dear Tom, As always, I’m embarrassed how long it has been since I’ve written. Time seems to accelerate these days. I don’t know what the Sufi word is for soul, but I suspect if it is different it has a like meaning.  Nor am I sure where it is located. Some say the heart, some…

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God has a different way of dealing with things than we do. It is one thing to say we love God, it’s a whole nother thing to love his ways or methods. We are always looking for quantum leaps of faith or miracles. God focuses on the seemingly insignificant changes that occur “little by little.”…

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