Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread. 1 Corinthians 11:23 After bitter herbs, I place upon the table my strange bread and wine, a really hard saying. Wise men are wary of this leap over a fisherman’s tally of the catch, a tax collector’s pinch of each extracted coin.Continue reading “The Leap of Faith”
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In celebration of “serendipitous” encounters
And the secret names of all we meet who lead us deeper into our labyrinth of valleys and mountains, twisting valleys and steeper mountains— their hidden names are always, like Proverb, promises: Rune, Omen, Fable, Parable, those we meet for only one crucial moment, gaze to gaze, or for years know and don’t recognize butContinue reading “In celebration of “serendipitous” encounters”
A fifth visit to The Seven Storey Mountain
“The word virtue: what a fate it has had in the last three hundred years! The fact that it is nowhere near so despised and ridiculed in Latin countries is a testimony to the fact that it suffered mostly from the mangling it underwent at the hands of the Calvinists and Puritans. In our ownContinue reading “A fifth visit to The Seven Storey Mountain”
A fourth visit to The Seven Storey Mountain
Early on in his memoir, when Thomas Merton was still an agnostic—at best—he was ill enough to consider death. He was still in his teens, a reluctant student in a parochial school. And here is how his thoughts unfolded: “If I have to die—what of it. What do I care? Let me die, then, andContinue reading “A fourth visit to The Seven Storey Mountain”
How big is your world?
This old and exceedingly wise commercial did not intend to make people think about God. But it does. It prompts us to ask if we’ve trained ourselves—-perhaps unwittingly—-to live lives tailored to our own jar-sized spaces. If we’ve allowed for God at all, have we only given access to one that might fit into ourContinue reading “How big is your world?”
Heather Choate Davis 