This was sent to me by a friend, Jeannie Kirkhope. Jeannie runs the Appalachian Catholic Worker in West Virginia and she has been giving me spiritual and emotional support for starting my ‘God Dream’ retreat center. We also had (have) a mutual friend from DC who spent his life serving God and the poor.
You can click on the live link to check out the Appalachian Catholic Worker! Pray for them, go visit them, maybe send an online financial donation in honor of the Advent Season…
The Inner Hermit
“I want to be with God in prayer.”
“What you want is an absurdity.”
“Why?”
“Because, whenever you are,
God is not;
Whenever God is,
you are not;
so how could you be with God?”
Later the Master said,
“Seek aloneness.
When you are with someone else,
you are not alone;
When you are ‘with God,’
you are not alone.
The only way to be really with God
is to be utterly alone.
Then, hopefully, God will be
and you will not.”
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