Category Archives: Atonement

Last night, sitting quietly doing nothing, pinballing between memories, arguments and fantasies, I remembered something Chris Fields said, and it settled me. It quieted me. Fields points out (in his commentary on “Excavating Belief About Past Experience: Experiential Dynamics of the Reflective Act” by Urban Kordeš and Ema Demšar) that human experience obviously includes bothContinue reading “Advent Journal: Pinballing”

Yesterday was funny. I bought four pretty little glass mugs at a tag sale for two dollars. All four together fit in the palm of my hand. I love colored glass and anything else that becomes even more beautiful when the light passes through it. How easy it is sometimes to be happy! In theContinue reading “Advent Journal: When the Light Passes Through”

I “Suddenly it’s okay I want to disappear.” I wrote that sentence a week or so ago and don’t remember did I use it in anything. I used to wonder about it, the desire to disappear, and worry was something wrong. Is it okay to want to disappear? Nobody talked about it. But it landsContinue reading “Advent Journal: The Single Note and the Song”

Morning darkness. Gusts of wind that occasionally make the house shake. I settle into prayer and as happens from time to time, the prayer prays me. There is only the prayer; there was always only the prayer. When I return from it, the coffee is cold and my legs hurt. The horizon is streaked withContinue reading “Advent Notes: A Consensual Act of Destruction”

Easter is about our relationship with Jesus, who is risen from the dead. It is about our participation in resurrection, which began but does not end with Jesus. Thus, Easter is also about the potential for all our relationships to be transformed from egocentric, survival-based relationships to holy relationships, whose premise is ensuring that allContinue reading “Easter 2025: The End of Darkness and Death”

0 I am feeling my way towards something here. Please be patient. You know what I’ve forgotten, and the trail is growing faint. 1 Lately I’ve been riding the insomnia train again. Do you know it? I mean insomnia like, it’s three a.m., you haven’t slept for twenty some odd hours and you have toContinue reading “In Christmas Time: The Authority of Love”