You, God, who live next door:If at times, through the long night, I trouble youwith my urgent knocking—this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom.I know you’re all alone in that room.If you should be thirsty, there’s no oneto get you a glass of water.I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign!I’m right …
The Best Apophatic Theologian
A case of contradictories, both of them true.There is a God. There is no God.Where is the problem? I am quite sure thatthere is a God in the sense that I amsure my love is no illusion. I am quite surethere is no God, in the sense that I am surethere is nothing which resembles …
Words of a Thirsty Soul
Give me a drink of you. My mouth wide open, I breathe in.What you say to me (to us) is: breath and life.I receive the mission to be a wellspring: it's You in me, leaping up into eternal Life.A mission to breathe. These words were written in 1994 in his journal, by Christophe Lebreton, the …
The Bible in the Marketplace
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:1-13) The Orthodox Church reads these opening words of the Bible on the first day of Lent. But the Church also reads Isaiah 1:1-20. “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken…” The …
Take Lent “lentement”
In 2nd Peter chapter 3 we read: But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should …
The Darkness Behind the Darkness
I watched the film Tolkien, a film that I failed to see on the big screen last year. And very few people did see it! Even the critics took little notice of it - and those critics who did see it hardly had much praise for it. It amazes me how such nonsense as the …
When God’s Name Changed
A group of men visited a remote monastery. They were given time to visit with a venerable holy monk, who answered all their questions. Finally one of the visitors spoke to the monk: “Father, could you tell us something about yourself?” He leaned back. “Myself?” he mused. There was a long pause. “My name used …
