The Deepest Need….
We can’t run from ourselves, and the more we do, the deeper the despair we will experience.
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Author: Brother Mark Dohle
How Deepest Desire Fuels the Monastic Journey
So that fateful evening I was browsing for a book to read and a title jumped out at me entitled, “The Waters of Siloe,” by a man named Thomas Merton…..
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A Down-to-Earth Prosaic Place — That’s a Monastery
The monastery as St Benedict describes it is a workshop. It is not the paradise of the cloister.
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The Woman In a Wheelchair
It was a Saturday afternoon, around 2 pm when Roseanne notified me that she received a phone call from a woman in distress. My first reaction was not to respond to the call….
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The Hidden Drama Within Each of Us
Until one day, it has not happened yet, my heart will finally break open and I will experience what has always been there, a love beyond telling.
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The Las Vegas Tragedy — Are We In a Free Fall?
When we see something on the screen, even if we do not want to admit it, takes on a form of entertainment when watching.
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Looking Leviathan In the Face
Yesterday, Leviathan came up suddenly, bit me, and dragged me deep into my own inner hell.
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No brake function on the highway of our lives (Jesus promised that those who seek shall find)
I don’t want to die suddenly. I believe that the ‘last mile’ is the most important time of life.
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Trying Another Kind of Love
Our lives if spent failing to love others the way God wants us to only leads to more pain, death and destruction. He wants us to try another way.
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A Beggar Off I-75, Near the Cleveland Avenue Exit
He does not try to hide his brokenness, what life has done to him, probably would be honest about his own compliance in letting it happen, if asked.
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