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Think of stepping on the shore and finding it heaven, of touching a hand and finding it God’s, of breathing new air and finding it celestial, of waking up in glory and finding it home.

Dana and I decided to have a fire the other night. Because I’ve never really been “wilderness man” (Compared to my brother who could just look at a stack of twigs and they catch on fire) it usually takes me a couple minutes or so to get a flame going. While I was starting this [...]

In the period of preparation for loving God, the soul loves in emptiness. It does not know whether anything real answers its love. It may believe that it knows, but to believe is not to know. Such a belief does not help. The soul knows for certain only that it is hungry. The important thing [...]

Re-Learning My Relationship With God

The closest analogy of “progress” with my relationship with God would be that as a man climbing a ladder to a roof of a house. Every day that would pass where I wouldn’t lose my temper or didn’t indulge my mind in lustful thoughts would be the equivalent of moving up [...]

Teach me, O God, so to use all the circumstances of my life today that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin. Let me use disappointment and material for patience. Let me use success as material for thankfulness. let me use trouble as material for perseverance. [...]