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Third Week of Lent… Following at a distance from Jesus. What does it mean? Where do we keep our distance? What might draw us near?
Henri Nouwen said, “Discernment requires not only reading with the heart but being willing to put down the book we are reading to just listen to what God is saying to us through its words…” Books form us, inspire, entertain, confound, and confront us in so many ways. How have books formed your life?
Discerning the Divine invitations in life is looking for the fingerprints of God on our souls. It invites us to listen and to be heard, to see and be seen, to touch and be touched by the Divine presence at work within us. But first, we must ask, “Do I want to be heard, seen and touched by God?”
What happens when we practice spiritual disciplines? Sometimes nothing perceptible, sometimes everything life changing.
Dust. The unadorned essence of all earthy substance, becomes the dwelling place of God.
