Tag: contemplation
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Searching
If I just sit here, God, and try to feel you, or know You, in a way I cannot doubt or explain, will you come, and be with me? Or will my foot that falls asleep, and my mind that begins to write, and the washer that beeps, because my laundry is done and ready […]
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Intentionally Blank
In an article from The Write Practice, Jeff Elkins offers tips on how to find your “Thoughtful Spot.” This is a trick, Elkins writes, that he learned from Winnie the Pooh. “His Thoughtful Spot was a log under a tree marked by a sign that read, ‘Pooh’s thotful spot.’ It was the place where Pooh […]
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The Burden of Judgment
Thomas Merton stood at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in a busy shopping district of Louisville, Kentucky, when he was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that he loved all those people. That they were his and he was theirs, that they could not be alien to one another even though they were total strangers.[1] […]
Teri McDowell Ott 