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GOODBYE
This is the final post for Value of Sparrows. Thank you for all your warmth, support, and enthusiasm. With all my love, [...]
My writing
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I received a vision recently. A big vision. A powerful, yet sublimely quiet vision. A vision that made me turn around and look at life in a completely new way. Seeing things in life that I had never seen before. It was there all along. But not, until now, in my “seeing.” I have been using as my focus for my rosary and contemplative prayers a prayer that asks God to come through me and help me to use my gifts in cooperation with his plan of salvation. It seemed a simple [...]
Thomas Merton poetry
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A yellow flower (Light and spirit) Sings by itself For nobody. A golden spirit (Light and emptiness) Sings without a word By itself. Let no one touch this gentle sun In whose dark eye Someone is awake. (No light, no gold, no name, no color And no thought: O, wide awake!) A golden heaven Sings by itself A song to [...]
Evelyn Underhill
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From The Mystery of Sacrifice For the fully Christian life is a Eucharistic life: that is, a natural life conformed to the pattern of Jesus, given in its wholeness to God, laid on His altar as a sacrifice of love, and consecrated, transformed by His inpouring life, to be used to give life and food to other souls. It will be, according to its measure and special call, adoring, declaratory, intercessory, and redemptive: but always a vehicle of the supernatural. The creative spirit of God is [...]
Mysticism
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I’ve spent my life straddling two worlds. And, to be honest, it has, on the whole, been annoying. Really, really annoying. Working with God all these years has sharpened that expression of my brain that loves exactness. I was an editor until I realized that I could never stop editing. I would edit roadside signs. I would edit menus. I would edit pretty much everything coming out of anyone’s mouth. So I stopped being an editor. But with God, in some ways, I get to [...]
