Andrew’s Substack
A newsletter about God and life and creation and theology and some monkish stuff and really just the whole miracle of existence
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So let your being run... (opens the original)
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Like waterrunningdownhill—effortlessmeanderinggreeningthe earthas it goes,so let your being run–effortlessmeanderingwending its wayto low groundmakingeverythingit touchesalive.Subscribe now</s
Make a sentence that sings... (opens the original)
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Make a sentence that sings.String words together like pearl beads.Adorn the elegant neck of the worldwith the grammar and syntax of love.Be the one who makes things shine again,Who restores the original luster.Be a prophet of the loveliness of things.Tell the world of the splendorthe deep-down beauty that has never not beenavailable to all,veiled to the regular eye.<a class="button primary" href="https://theandrewarndt.substack.com/p/make-a-sentence-that-sings?utm_source=substack&utm_med
The Work of the Soul // RELEASING TOMORROW (opens the original)
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Well, friends—here we are. The Work of the Soul: 40 Days with the Sayings of the Des
20 Years In // Miscellany and Meanderings (opens the original)
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Labor Day weekend marks my 20th year in pastoral ministry. That is not long. It is not short either. I feel as though I have a lot in front of me. I certainly have a lot behind me. And while I know that none of us is promised more days, somehow in my bones 20 years does feel very much like a view from the middle.What can I say from where I stand?*Certainly this: none of it has turned out like I expected.I had grand thoughts in seminary of what it would be like and how it was all going to go. Som
Prayer in the Dark (opens the original)
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What is itabout prayerin the nightunder the coverof darkness;the waythe senseof presenceis strongerin the small hoursof the morning;the waythe radianceis brighterthe lesserthe light?Theseare the hoursinto whichI rise,rooting aboutin darknessfor deity,stunned silentby mystery,by the waythe newly composedair of the nighttingles,the waythe quiet gloryof the predawncrackleswith the adventof the e
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