spirituality
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Baby birdBaby birdOn the sidewalk;Gone so young, never feathered;Once encased, never fettered—Through your intercession:Let my death be like yours—in a whisper;To a hymn sung by mi familia;For my tomb the whole world.And let them sing unto new millennia:Those who flew that I may try to fly, whoLanded that I may find ground.Let them sing, then…
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A WaveThere is a place, a starting point for thought,Where the wave is not a breath, nor an unseen excitation;A time when the ocean wave is entirely and only itself.Here I see the space is vast that isolates a lover,And turbulent the time that shakes the brittle tie of one to one.If I should cast…
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In the Buzzing of DragonfliesThere’s a manlike activity in the buzzing of dragonflies:Their darting and zipping,their pausing to evaluate, then flitting away toward gain.There’s economy, intention, drive.But our highest calling is not like this at all, but ratherthat through our eyes the Lord may view again His Garden;And by us stroll through His creationto find…
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The Mother Goes AheadMaiden, whither do you go,with your diadem of silver andyour ecru shantung robe?Won’t you stay a while and count with methe ways a net can hold a sphere,and whether it may flow?Else let me wander in your wake:Give to me hibiscus dress,hedge maple breast:And I will guard your taxa;And create myself by…
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I undertook the project of writing The Trinitarian Mystery beginning in May 2022 as a means of grappling with the experience of the onset of my bipolar disorder. I had a profound experience at the beginning of my first manic episode. I felt in my body an almost indescribable feeling of truth. It felt like…
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My friend Avi asked me something along the lines of what I would say the meaning of life is in one word. At first I was tempted to say, “Love,” but that word has too many different meanings or connotations. I felt then that I should say, “Support,” to single out a specific kind of…
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This post is a collection of quick thoughts. My goal in writing it is to come closer to an emotional resolution on the topic of fallibilism and the apparent problem posed by the reflexivity thereof. Does absolute certainty exist? First, one can never prove with absolute certainty that absolute certainty is not possible, because to…
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One thing we can know is that we are questioning As we question the nature of reality, we have very little that is unassailable upon which to build answers. One thing that we can be sure of, though, is our own questioning. What, if anything, can the fact of our questioning itself tell us about…
