…as sung by my dear friend Kate Campbell. This song has led me through more murky seasons than I can count. Now, as I find myself sorting through all her old CDs while reading The Seven Storey Mountain, it seems that the divine choreographer is about to bring a new season into being. If you’veContinue reading “The Prayer of Thomas Merton…”
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Lay Back the Darkness
Sometimes the only way to heal the blues is to sing them. Thank you, Kate Campbell, for healing so many hearts along the way….
A second visit to The Seven Storey Mountain
This passage, written through Merton’s childhood eyes before he’d ever been inside a church or thought seriously — if at all — about God, speaks volumes about how our cultural landscape reflects the big picture. As we read this, we might consider what’s been lost when the keystone of our towns is a Costco orContinue reading “A second visit to The Seven Storey Mountain”
A visit to the The Seven Storey Mountain
I’m not sure why it has taken me so long to actually get to reading Thomas Merton’s autobiography. It became a best-seller upon its release in 1948 and has remained in constant publication since then, translated into 40 languages. Merton’s life began in France among artists, was lived out in a Trappist monastery in Kentucky,Continue reading “A visit to the The Seven Storey Mountain”
Lovely Rheta
We lost someone dear last night. A woman whose faith came down through her family, through generations, and shone out through her with a twinkle that could not be mistaken for anything else. I loved Rheta Stoppel, and I will miss her dearly. We first became close almost twenty years ago, at one of those mission/visionContinue reading “Lovely Rheta”
Heather Choate Davis 