One of our greatest resistances in healing prayer is trusting the messages we receive. If we are not accustomed to receiving visions then we are especially vulnerable to doubt. One thing we can do to train ourselves to recognize what voice is what, which is not a perfect process, is to do contemplative prayer. Each and every day, sit still for as long as you can. Try to build up to 20 to 30 minutes a day. You can focus on a word,...
Read More
Peering Through As a mystic I feel as though I spend much of my time in the dark. It is a place that shares more with worlds that exist in cartoons than with what we experience in our world every day. There is a lot of slipping and sliding around. Silence is crucial. Knowing how to detect something around you so that you can become still is necessary for survival. In spite of the increased challenge in finding my way around,...
Read More
Facing This begins with Jesus. He comes upon a man born deaf. And he separates him from the other people. Jesus takes the man where they can be alone. So he can spit, and dawdle, and chant incantations. Whatever he feels impelled to do that day. Whatever it was, he wanted to do it alone. For me, there’s alone— and there’s alone. Being alone physically gives me the actual space to bump around, bump up against, climb...
Read More