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Solitude has a Learning Curve
In his excellent book, Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World , Mike Cosper explains the value in persevering through the difficult realities of practicing solitude. ... -
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True Relating is Born of Solitude
I sit in a bright-lit June meadow at the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky. It is early afternoon, and I have been here since morning in what can only be described as an uneasy sol... -
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Riding the Monsters in the Wilderness
Entering the wilderness is a larger metaphor for dealing with our own demons, our own motivations, be they good or bad. In this short excerpt, Annie Dillard shares the value of entering the wilderness... -
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Retreats: Where Overachievers May Struggle the Most
Another one of the great ironies of retreat is that overachievers tend to approach retreat as a place to get something done. I cannot tell you how many times I have gone on retreat seriously intending... -
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The Desert Monk with a Leaky Jug
Solitude... keeps us from making judgments about other people’s sins. In this way real forgiveness becomes possible. The following desert story offers a good illustration: A brother . . . committed... -
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The Topography of Discipline
In the wilderness, life is stripped of distractions. It is quiet. The topography demands discipline, simplicity, and fierce attention. Solitude in the wilderness makes irrelevant all the people-pleasi... -
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A National Day of Quiet
The fascination with silence took root early in the life of composer John Cage. In 1928, during a speech contest at Los Angeles High School, he argued for the establishment of a national day of quiet.... -
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Your Cell Will Teach You Everything
A certain brother went to Abbot Moses in Scete, and asked him for a good word. And the Elder said to him: Go, sit in your cell and your cell will teach you everything. An elder said: The monk’s ce... -
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Ceaseless Motion and a Sense of Achievement
Thomas Merton describes those who never experience the gift of a contemplative life. His explanation for why some people never experience this can be found in his book, New Seeds of Contemplation: [T... -
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Prayer: When Words Become Superfluous
Prayer is like love. Words pour at first. Then we are more silent and can communicate in monosyllables. In difficulties a gesture is enough, a word, or nothing at all—love is enough. Thus the time com... -
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Jesus’ Hidden Invitations
Jesus’ actions, in and of themselves, often make no sense unless we see them as responses to some hidden invitation—an invitation received from time spent alone with his Father. When Jesus was interru... -
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Matt PTA
These days, a common trick people use to remember someone they’ve just met is to save their first name along with the place where they met them—like “Matt PTA,” for example. I recently realized I stil... -
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Crash Landing
My entry into solitude often feels like the hard landing of an aircraft that this flight attendant humorously describes: “Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Captain Crash and the ... -
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The Tragedy of the Digital World
Recently a professor shared with me a college student’s reflections in response to my earlier writings on solitude and silence: I was not born into a world relatively unaffected by technology lik... -
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The Still, Small Voice of Love
Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, “Prove that you are a good person.” Another voice says, “You’d better be ashamed of yourself.” There also is a voice that says, “Nobody r... -
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A Social Media Fast
So in the last three years, in order to reorient myself and head back onto the narrow way, I’ve given up social media and/or the internet for Lent. At first it’s agonizing. I’m like a caffeine or nico... -
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Passing Down the Message
John Ruskin (1819-1900), the famous art historian, wrote about a beautiful tradition that existed among the shepherds of the Swiss Alps during his lifetime. These shepherds grazed their flocks often i... -
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The Silence wasn’t to be Feared
In Lancelot , one of Walker Percy’s final novels, the narrator reflects on his own struggle with idleness and addiction to entertainment. In a poignant scene set outside his Mississippi mansion, ... -
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An Invitation To Find our Hearts
Holy silence is spacious and inviting. You can drink it down…During congregational silences, in meditation rooms or halls, in prison cells and meeting rooms, in silent confession at church, all these ... -
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Alone Together
In this excerpt from Jay Y. Kim’s book, Analog Church , the author shares about an experience at a local restaurant after being convicted of his own smartphone use at home, keeping him from being p... -
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The Power of Silence in a Prayerful Life
The Desert Saint John Climacus placed a strong emphasis on the role of silence in the life of prayer. In his guidebook to the spiritual life, he had this to say: Intelligent silence is the mother of... -
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The Happy Night
Eventually, God sends all who truly seek to know him into a spiritual wilderness. That’s why St. John of the Cross calls this dark night, this desert of ours, a “happy night.” The night is happy becau... -
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Why We Text and Drive
In this poignant social commentary, the comedian Louis C.K. points out why it is that people are constantly staring at their cell-phones: because they don’t want to acknowledge the loneliness that is ... -
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Riding the Monsters
Entering the wilderness is a larger metaphor for dealing with our own demons, our own motivations, be they good or bad. In this short excerpt, Annie Dillard shares the value of entering the wilderness... -
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Singular, Holistic Absorption
Presence is experienced as a unitary whole. Think, for example, about the experience of sitting on the top of a hill, far from the polluting lights of a city, gazing at a dark, starry sky. Unless you ... -
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The Wild Soul
The soul is like a wild animal—tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, self-sufficient. It knows how to survive in hard places. But it is also shy. Just like a wild animal, it seeks safety in the dense ... -
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The Empty Bench
The character Quentin from Henry Miller’s Play, After the Fall explains a life without God: For many years I looked at life like a case at law. It was a series of proofs. When you’re young you prove ... -
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Freedom vs. Independence
“Christianity promises to make man free,” Anglican priest William R. Inge writes; “it never promises to make them independent.” Freedom and independence are polar opposites. The former leads to wellne... -
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The Effects of Light Deprivation
Psychologists tell us that one of the most difficult conditions a person can be forced to bear is light deprivation. Darkness, in fact, is often used in military captivity or penal institutions to bre... -
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Our Bodies Need Silence
Your body knows about schedules. It gets used to those times of day when it says, Feed me right now. I’m hungry, and those times of night when it says, Get me to bed. I’m exhausted. Your body will spe...
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- Resurrection (9)
- Resurrection Life (4)
- Resurrection to New Life (6)
- Retreat (3)
- Returning to God (3)
- Revelation (11)
- Rhythms (3)
- Rhythms of Rest (3)
- Righteousness (5)
- Risks (5)
- Role Models (3)
- Romantic Relationships (9)
- Rootedness (6)
- Roots (5)
- Routines (3)
- The Roman Empire (3)
S
- Sabbath (5)
- Sacrifice (19)
- Sacrificial Living (3)
- Sacrificial Love (6)
- Safety (6)
- Salt (5)
- Salt and Light (4)
- Salvation (11)
- Sanctification (22)
- Satan (5)
- Savior (4)
- Scarcity (4)
- Scars (5)
- Science (11)
- Science and Religion (6)
- Screens (5)
- Scripture (16)
- Sea (4)
- Searching (5)
- Seasons (6)
- Secularism (5)
- Security (4)
- Seeking God (5)
- Seeking Happiness (6)
- Seeking the Kingdom (5)
- Seeking the Truth (13)
- Self-Absorption (5)
- Self-Acceptance (4)
- Self-Achievement (3)
- Self-Awareness (7)
- Self-Centeredness (6)
- Self-Control (4)
- Self-Deception (11)
- Self-Destruction (3)
- Self-Discipline (3)
- Self-Examination (3)
- Self-Image (4)
- Self-Importance (5)
- Self-Improvement (5)
- Self-Judgment (3)
- Self-Justification (6)
- Self-Knowledge (4)
- Self-Love (5)
- Self-Reliance (5)
- Self-Sacrifice (11)
- Self-Worth (5)
- Selfishness (6)
- Selflessness (4)
- Sermon on the Mount (7)
- Sermons (3)
- Servant Leadership (4)
- Servanthood (9)
- Service (4)
- Sex (9)
- Sexual Temptation (3)
- Shadow (4)
- Shame (6)
- Sharing the Gospel (3)
- Sheep (8)
- Shepherds (6)
- Sight (7)
- Silence (10)
- Silence (Spiritual Discipline) (4)
- Simplicity (4)
- Sin (11)
- Sin Nature (5)
- Sinfulness (9)
- Sins (17)
- Skepticism (7)
- Slavery (7)
- Sleep (4)
- Slowing Down (6)
- Smart Phones (6)
- Snakes (3)
- Social Class (3)
- Social Media (10)
- Social Status (3)
- Society (3)
- Soil (4)
- Solitude (11)
- Solutions (3)
- Solving Problems (3)
- Space (Outer) (3)
- Spending Time (3)
- Spiritual Blindness (5)
- Spiritual Direction (4)
- Spiritual Discernment (4)
- Spiritual Disciplines (8)
- Spiritual Formation (13)
- Spiritual Growth (7)
- Spiritual Leadership (7)
- Spiritual Maturity (4)
- Spiritual Nurture (10)
- Spiritual Practices (5)
- Spiritual Problems (5)
- Spiritual Thirst (5)
- Spiritual Transformation (14)
- Sports (17)
- Stable (3)
- Stars (3)
- Status Quo (4)
- Staying Humble (8)
- Stealing (4)
- Stewardship (6)
- Stillness (4)
- Storms (9)
- Strength (13)
- Strength of Character (4)
- Stress (6)
- Struggles (10)
- Struggles with Prayer (4)
- Stubbornness (3)
- Stuck (3)
- Stuffing Pain (3)
- Submission (6)
- Success (16)
- Suffering (20)
- Superheroes (4)
- Surprise (3)
- Surrender (9)
- Survival (4)
- The Sacraments (7)
- The Saints (7)
- The Soul (11)
- The Spiritual Life (8)
- The Star of Bethlehem (3)
T
- Taking A Leap Of Faith (6)
- Taking Stock (3)
- Taking Up the Cross (3)
- Talents (4)
- Talking (3)
- Teaching (3)
- Teamwork (4)
- Technology (5)
- Teenagers (6)
- Temptation (10)
- Testing (4)
- Thankfulness (3)
- The Twelve Disciples (4)
- Theology of Work (3)
- Thought Life (4)
- Thoughtfulness (3)
- Thoughts (8)
- Threats (5)
- Time (9)
- Tradition (5)
- Tragedy (5)
- Training (10)
- Transformation (19)
- Trauma (6)
- Treasure (8)
- Trees (14)
- Trials (5)
- Trouble (4)
- True Church (3)
- True Love (3)
- Trust (20)
- Trust in God (10)
- Trust in Jesus (4)
- Trust like a Child (4)
- Truth (9)
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V
W
- The Wild (6)
- The Work of the Holy Spirit (5)
- Waiting (10)
- Waiting on God (4)
- Walking (5)
- Walls (3)
- Wandering (6)
- War (11)
- Warning Signs (3)
- Warnings (4)
- Weakness (7)
- Weddings (5)
- Western Culture (12)
- Wholeness (3)
- Wilderness (17)
- Willpower (3)
- Wine (4)
- Winning (3)
- Wisdom (10)
- Witnesses (7)
- Word of God (3)
- Words (8)
- Words vs. Actions (4)
- Work (11)
- Work and Rest (3)
- Work-Life Balance (9)
- Workmanship (4)
- Works-Righteousness (6)
- World (14)
- Worldliness (3)
- Worldly Power (6)
- Worldview (8)
- Worry (6)
- Worship (10)
- Wounds (7)
Illustration_categories by Reference
Genesis
Exodus
- Exod 1 (2)
- Exod 2 (2)
- Exod 3 (30)
- Exod 4 (8)
- Exod 5 (3)
- Exod 6 (1)
- Exod 10 (1)
- Exod 12 (1)
- Exod 13 (5)
- Exod 14 (13)
- Exod 15 (1)
- Exod 16 (15)
- Exod 17 (9)
- Exod 18 (5)
- Exod 19 (4)
- Exod 20 (11)
- Exod 22 (3)
- Exod 23 (3)
- Exod 24 (3)
- Exod 25 (2)
- Exod 26 (1)
- Exod 27 (1)
- Exod 30 (1)
- Exod 31 (5)
- Exod 32 (17)
- Exod 33 (11)
- Exod 34 (4)
- Exod 35 (4)
Leviticus
Deuteronomy
Ruth
1 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (11)
- Ps 2 (4)
- Ps 3 (1)
- Ps 4 (2)
- Ps 5 (1)
- Ps 7 (1)
- Ps 8 (6)
- Ps 10 (2)
- Ps 13 (1)
- Ps 14 (2)
- Ps 15 (1)
- Ps 16 (12)
- Ps 17 (1)
- Ps 18 (4)
- Ps 19 (17)
- Ps 22 (8)
- Ps 23 (32)
- Ps 24 (5)
- Ps 25 (8)
- Ps 27 (11)
- Ps 29 (1)
- Ps 30 (1)
- Ps 31 (2)
- Ps 32 (9)
- Ps 33 (2)
- Ps 34 (24)
- Ps 36 (1)
- Ps 37 (18)
- Ps 38 (2)
- Ps 39 (2)
- Ps 40 (4)
- Ps 42 (24)
- Ps 43 (2)
- Ps 46 (27)
- Ps 48 (1)
- Ps 49 (2)
- Ps 51 (20)
- Ps 52 (1)
- Ps 55 (6)
- Ps 56 (3)
- Ps 61 (1)
- Ps 62 (5)
- Ps 63 (6)
- Ps 65 (2)
- Ps 66 (2)
- Ps 69 (1)
- Ps 72 (6)
- Ps 73 (7)
- Ps 77 (2)
- Ps 82 (9)
- Ps 84 (1)
- Ps 85 (3)
- Ps 86 (1)
- Ps 88 (3)
- Ps 90 (13)
- Ps 91 (4)
- Ps 92 (2)
- Ps 93 (1)
- Ps 94 (4)
- Ps 95 (3)
- Ps 96 (3)
- Ps 100 (3)
- Ps 101 (1)
- Ps 103 (15)
- Ps 104 (9)
- Ps 107 (2)
- Ps 110 (2)
- Ps 112 (2)
- Ps 115 (4)
- Ps 116 (4)
- Ps 118 (8)
- Ps 119 (38)
- Ps 121 (5)
- Ps 122 (1)
- Ps 123 (2)
- Ps 126 (3)
- Ps 127 (14)
- Ps 128 (1)
- Ps 130 (7)
- Ps 131 (5)
- Ps 133 (6)
- Ps 136 (2)
- Ps 138 (1)
- Ps 139 (35)
- Ps 141 (4)
- Ps 143 (2)
- Ps 145 (5)
- Ps 146 (4)
- Ps 147 (5)
- Ps 150 (1)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (2)
- Prov 2 (2)
- Prov 3 (30)
- Prov 4 (16)
- Prov 5 (1)
- Prov 6 (1)
- Prov 7 (1)
- Prov 8 (2)
- Prov 9 (3)
- Prov 10 (1)
- Prov 11 (10)
- Prov 12 (6)
- Prov 13 (3)
- Prov 14 (12)
- Prov 15 (9)
- Prov 16 (19)
- Prov 17 (8)
- Prov 18 (10)
- Prov 19 (10)
- Prov 20 (3)
- Prov 21 (2)
- Prov 22 (7)
- Prov 23 (1)
- Prov 24 (5)
- Prov 25 (3)
- Prov 26 (5)
- Prov 27 (7)
- Prov 28 (2)
- Prov 29 (4)
- Prov 31 (3)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (11)
- Isa 2 (1)
- Isa 6 (20)
- Isa 7 (3)
- Isa 9 (16)
- Isa 11 (1)
- Isa 12 (1)
- Isa 14 (2)
- Isa 25 (2)
- Isa 26 (10)
- Isa 28 (3)
- Isa 29 (1)
- Isa 30 (15)
- Isa 32 (1)
- Isa 37 (1)
- Isa 40 (45)
- Isa 41 (12)
- Isa 42 (9)
- Isa 43 (19)
- Isa 44 (1)
- Isa 45 (2)
- Isa 46 (1)
- Isa 47 (1)
- Isa 48 (8)
- Isa 49 (8)
- Isa 50 (1)
- Isa 52 (1)
- Isa 53 (31)
- Isa 54 (1)
- Isa 55 (36)
- Isa 57 (3)
- Isa 58 (18)
- Isa 59 (3)
- Isa 60 (7)
- Isa 61 (11)
- Isa 64 (8)
- Isa 65 (6)
- Isa 66 (1)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Amos
Nahum
Zephaniah
Matthew
- Matt 1 (8)
- Matt 2 (13)
- Matt 3 (3)
- Matt 4 (25)
- Matt 5 (53)
- Matt 6 (61)
- Matt 7 (33)
- Matt 8 (2)
- Matt 9 (7)
- Matt 10 (14)
- Matt 11 (27)
- Matt 12 (7)
- Matt 13 (17)
- Matt 14 (16)
- Matt 15 (6)
- Matt 16 (14)
- Matt 17 (4)
- Matt 18 (25)
- Matt 19 (3)
- Matt 20 (7)
- Matt 21 (9)
- Matt 22 (9)
- Matt 23 (15)
- Matt 24 (8)
- Matt 25 (25)
- Matt 26 (7)
- Matt 27 (7)
- Matt 28 (8)