Cenacle Journal
Posted in Presence, Transformation, Turned Toward God on May 14th, 2005
I am sometimes surprised by how much a simple act of kindness can touch me. When I approached Main Street the other day to make a right turn, I noticed a bicyclist at the corner, waiting to cross. He was less than respectable looking, bone thin, with a short scruffy beard and an arm covered [...]
Posted in Glory, Transformation, Weakness, Power on Apr 29th, 2005
My brother and I have been sorting through our parents’ stacks of photographs. They fill an old trunk to the brim, so we agreed on a couple of ground rules: that we would bravely discard more pictures than we would keep; and that any pictures of unidentifiable babies would be thrown out. Deep in the [...]
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… [...]
Posted in Contemplation, Transformation on Apr 15th, 2005
I have an old nightgown which is something like the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay. It (the gown) was purchased about 15 years ago — a prim, sisterly kind of night attire, 100% cotton, full-length, with short sleeves and a high neck. It is still, in a new millennium, cotton, full-length, with short sleeves and a high [...]
Posted in Cenacle, On the Road, Prayer, Transformation, Union with God on Feb 18th, 2005
I have sometimes said that insights come to me more easily when I am on the road. Perhaps the fact of being in between two places — being neither here nor there, so to speak — frees the mind and the heart to receive what is offered. But on the road or not, insights do [...]
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