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"God is always coming to us, but from every side. He comes in life, just as it is. The as-it-isness is precisely how He comes.” -Sister Wendy Beckett
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The Simple Woundedness of Being Human (opens the original)
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The simple woundedness of being human. This is how the actor Andrew Garfield described what he saw in Jesus. “The simple woundedness of him as a human being. That somehow allows me to accept my own ordinariness or my own simple woundedness as a human being,” he said choking up in an interview with Fr. James Martin, SJ on his podcast The Spiritual Life.In preparing for his role in Silence (2016) where he played a Jesuit mission
“My first memory is of a time ten years before I was born” (opens the original)
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“My first memory is of a time ten years before I was born.” This is how Harry Crews begins his memoir about growing up in the depression. I’ve never read the memoir, but I have read that line and I love it.I’m not sure what my first memory is, but I carry around with me memories that took place before I was born, of people I’ve never met and places I’ve never been to. We all do, I think.She was sitting on the love seat that used to be in my great grandparents’ townhouse, the small place they mov
What Remembering Can Do (opens the original)
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I remember that she had a barrette pulling her white hair away from the right side of her face. Sometimes, not always.“I remember…” is a good way to start prayer when you’re stuck. I heard this a couple of days ago from a friend who heard it from an older priest. When you’re stuck in prayer, it is dry or cold, just begin with, “I remember,” and list whatever you can remember.Receive God in the details, in the specifics, in reality. This is where God meets us: reality.I remember that she often wo
The Trojan Horse of an Open Heart (opens the original)
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In high school, I was on the speech team. To practice more intentional hand gestures, and to be more generally aware of our bodies while speaking in front of people, our coach would sometimes have us hold soup cans in our hands while we gave our speeches.I can still remember both the awkwardness of holding those soup cans while speaking in front of people, and also how effective the exercise was. It made me so much more aware of where my hands were and how often or not I was moving them.This exe
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