“...what I mean by quiet: an openness to the presence of God at play in creation, at work in our hearts, directing our ways and drawing us into his story.”
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“I learned to let prayer shape the way I saw the world, to "behold the lightener of the stars" as the Celtic Christians did in their ancient prayers, and to understand that the Creator's breath blew also in the dark and void places of my heart.”
― Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention
― Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention
“A fox. Tentative, she sets one paw onto the ice. Then another. She hesitates, for she knows how fickle the river can be.”
― The Frozen River
― The Frozen River
“We need both the words, and the Word. We need the Word undergirding the words, the Word shimmering through the words. This is how I have approached the scriptures both as a believer and a poet.”
― The Word within the Words
― The Word within the Words
“I am a soul seeking to take part in the issues of my generation yet deeply convicted that I am called to cultivate a life shaped by the holy wild of quiet so that God's Word may sing amidst my days.”
― Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention
― Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention
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