Cenacle Journal
Posted in Emptiness, Emptying, Giving All, Suffering, Union with God on Nov 21st, 2009
The only thing to be done now,
now that the waves of our undoing have begun to strike on us,
is to contain ourselves.
To keep still, and let the wreckage of ourselves go,
let everything go, as the wave smashes us,
yet keep still, and hold
the tiny grain of something that no wave can wash away,
not even the most [...]
Posted in Emptiness, Emptying on Mar 15th, 2009
On the kenosis of Jesus and our own call to union with him:
According to Paul
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
(Philippians [...]
Posted in Emptiness, Emptying, Fear on Jan 20th, 2008
The astronomers of centuries past – Ptolemaeus, Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, not to mention those Persian or Babylonian sky-watchers we call the Magi – would be astonished and awed by what modern science shows us of the cosmos. (If you haven’t done it already, you might want to browse through NASA’s Image Gallery.) What a [...]
Posted in Emptiness, Emptying, Giving All, Transformation on Apr 22nd, 2005
In Sunday School, when I was a child, we used to sing the spiritual, “Lord, I want to be a Christian.” If you don’t know the words, this is how it begins:
Lord, I want to be a Christian
in my heart, in my heart,
Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart…
I enjoyed singing [...]
Posted in Emptiness, Emptying, Turned Toward God on Feb 26th, 2005
It’s not unusual to see abandoned objects along the side of the road, but on the interstates, these are usually confined to pieces of tire, the occasional cardboard box, or more rarely, a shoe or unidentifiable piece of clothing. So I was surprised last week to see an easy-chair perched comfortably on the shoulder of [...]
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