The Face of our Heart

“For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.”(Jeremiah 2:27b) I pondered this verse over the past week in the prayer room. I can’t seem to get past it. It keeps drawing me back, like a magnet. It’s gripping my heart, tightly. It’s threatening to shatter that dark corner of my heart…

The Monastery is Burning

I am always drawn to anything that mentions monasteries. I read about them in the writings of Christians throughout the centuries and have a special love and admiration for these mysteriously beautiful places. The beautiful mystery of a monastery, where God divinely gathers a community of people who voluntarily come to live simply and uncelebrated,…