Cenacle Journal
Posted in Turned Toward God, Union with God on Sep 25th, 2007
On the way home from giving a day of prayer in Jacksonville, Sister Elizabeth and I pass a church. A sign outside exhorts: Get away from yourself. Come to church. “Why would I want to get away from myself?” I think. “I’m the only self I have.” Then I remember what Huston Smith says about [...]
Posted in Union with God on Feb 20th, 2007
One day a number of years ago, I fell asleep during my prayer. As I was sleeping, I heard a voice. I knew this was a dream voice. It spoke only two words: “Enoch choices.” I immediately woke up. “Enoch choices?” I repeated. “What on earth does that mean?” So, remembering that Enoch was mentioned [...]
Posted in Advent, Death, Heaven, Union with God on Dec 23rd, 2006
Right after D-Day, our Sister Elizabeth — not yet Sister, but Lieutenant Hillmann — was stationed at a hospital in Bristol. Among her patients was a horribly burned soldier, barely out of childhood when he went off to war. He was burned every place on his body except for his face and the palms [...]
Posted in Glory, Heaven, Union with God on May 25th, 2005
I have just finished reading Marilynne Robinson’s remarkable novel, Gilead, which recently won the Pulitzer prize. Very near the end of the book the narrator, an elderly preacher composing a long letter for his young son to read after his death, writes: I love the prairie! So often I have seen the dawn come and [...]
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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