Category: Stillness

Solitude & Me#

6/7/2016
Solitude & Me#

As with our Lord and St. Benedict, I too require solitude's fields of refreshment. In solitude I discover more of Jesus. He then disarms me with love.

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St Benedict did Solitude#

5/7/2016
St Benedict did Solitude#

Saint Benedict (c480-550) was not always a human saint. Born as Roman nobility, he would abandon his normal studies around the turn of the sixth century.

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Jesus did Solitude#

4/7/2016
Jesus did Solitude#

Did Jesus ever make a mistake? His brief season upon planet earth was punctuated in silence, devotion and prayerful solitude. A model we all would do well to heed.

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Alone & In Love

15/4/2016
Alone & In Love

Lovers do not care to share their lover. The heart in love yearns to give to, and share their lover's full attention.

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The Elijah Enigma

10/4/2016
The Elijah Enigma

If ever there is an archetypal prophet, an enigma to the common mind, a man given to a roller-coaster faith - it must be Elijah.

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Hooked On Heaven

1/2/2016
Hooked On Heaven

Deliberately favored are those the Lord draws into His presence, for they understand the pleasures and work of this earth are mere phantoms, thieves of time.

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The Purity of Solitude

1/11/2015
The Purity of Solitude

A human spirit encompassed by silence, a soul released from today and a body absent of distress always gains health with solitude.

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