MYSTICS, trying to tell us of their condition, often feel that they feel “sunk in God like a fish in the sea.” We pass over these phrases very easily, and forget that they are the final result of a long struggle to find the best image for an admittedly imageless truth. Yet prayer is above… Continue reading Saturday of the Fourth Week in Lent: A Fish In The Sea – Evelyn Underhill
https://youtu.be/oLVyRvp2Qbg A little breath of hopefulness from my own life. A piece of music and imagery that has sustained me through some very dark roads. I hope that it will lift you as well. These days are not the end of our story. Blessings and Godspeed. Alston For I know the plans I have for… Continue reading The Promise of Living
https://youtu.be/59ceORsBT0A When I began to take my own questions about God and faith seriously while in college, I used to go to the basement of the library at the University of Vermont and study in the music library. Down there in the basement I would check out pieces of music by composers I that was… Continue reading The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth . . .
Six hundred years ago Saint Francis, praying alone when he thought himself unobserved, found nothing to say but this: “My God and All! What art Thou? And what am I?” And in spite of the modern knowledge we are so proud of, the human soul is saying that still. As a matter of fact, those… Continue reading Friday of the Fourth Week in Lent: God, Acknowledged or Not – Evelyn Underhill
“The Utmost that we know of God,” says Saint Thomas, “is nothing in respect of that which He is.” Such an outlook on the Unchanging redeems our prayer from pettiness, discounts our worries, brings a solemn selfless peace. Everything drops away except awe, longing, and humility. “Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there… Continue reading Thursday of the Fourth Week in Lent: God and Understanding – Evelyn Underhill
The Carpenter's Nail 