Healing

“My belief is that the two universal paths are great love and great suffering,” he told me. For much of his life, Rohr has used suffering as a spiritual tool to help him learn to be humble. “I pray for one humiliation a day,” he told me. “It doesn’t have to be major.”

"I lost faith in the songs and myself. The horse died."

I have a lot of shame about this. Popping another couple painkillers, I think, I should be taking white willow, which contains a pain-relieving compound called salicin, similar to aspirin. I should be tending the four incisions on my belly with a salve of comfrey and plantain, to help the skin heal faster. Because I do truly believe in the healing ... See more

My capacity to live a contemplative way of life was inscribed in my very being as a person created in the image and likeness of God.

Whenever my parents, siblings, and I went to the village, we prayed the Rosary in Igbo every morning with the extended family but outside that, I could converse only in English, which my grandfather did not speak. One afternoon, I had been worried about something that needed to be tabled before God. While my mind went on its internal monologue in E... See more

I was your rebellious son,

do you remember? Sometimes

I wonder if you do remember,

so complete has your forgiveness been.