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My writing
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Yes, it’s a reference to The Karate Kid. I like the image of doing one thing with one hand, and doing another with the other. It’s just that I am absolutely fascinated these days with the bare beginnings of the Bible. You have a forest of sorts. A magical forest. Who knows, perhaps there were even unicorns. You have a few specifically named trees. The tree of life. That has no distinct limitations attached to it. Then you have the tree of the knowledge. Of good and [...]
Thomas Merton poetry
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I When, for the fifteenth year, Tiberius Caesar Cursed, with his reign, the Roman world, Sharing the Near-East with a tribe of tetrarchs, The Word of God was made in far-off province: Deliverance from the herd of armored cattle, When, from the desert, John came down to Jordan. But his prophetic messages Were worded in a code the scribes were not prepared to understand. Where, in their lexicons, was written: “Brood of vipers,” Applied, that [...]
Evelyn Underhill
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Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. May that strange directive power of which from time-to-time we are conscious as the controlling factor of life have pity on our weakness and lead us out of confusion into peace. This abject confession of helplessness seems at first sight to be meant for the untried and bewildered neophyte, in whom the gifts of the Spirit have not yet had time to grow. Actually, it is the culmination of the prayer which was given to the Church of God in [...]
The Value of Sparrows 