Words I have Learned to Live by have become an inherent imperative for me. Words such as Apostasy (to rebel against), Atonement (a reconciliation with God), Trust ( a transparency to live by), and Forgiveness ( seeing the world view on a deeper yet simpler plane), and I am learning more. Today, the word has…
MY JOURNEY INTO THE NUPTIAL MYSTERY: THE HYPOSTATIC UNION FOR ESPOUSAL LOVE – ENCOUNTER WITH HOLINESS
John Gregory Evans © 2020, Boise, ID. The Beginning of Encounter My intimate personal story and experience born October 13th, 1954, only eleven short years after the horrific bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the hidden tortures of the Holocaust. Little did I know between 1959-1960 I would be moving to a small German village near…
Reading Rilke’s Book of Hours Upon Awakening During an Early Morning Freeze
Your poetry begets music, but only to the poor. The poor hear each note of hunger upon their wanderings; whether city, or fields, or highways off the desert roads, the poor shall always hear these tattered tunes laying threadbare, frayed at the heel of existence. Your Russian journeys lead you to God, unbeknownst, an intimate…
Reading Rita Dove at Midnight
Life, never what it appears to be unless one is a poet. I think of you, as I dig deeply into your metaphors, and the communities of the marginalized, the early morning freeze, deadens my fingertips upon this black, icy laptop, frozen as if dead. Your words, alive with the perfume of truth. I learn…
Jeramiah
Jeramiah John Gregory Evans © 2020 Jeramiah, the fire within comets the skies of angels, and the interior realms where within – God resides. Monastery of the Angels, Greek Orthodox never loved so High. Like anthropology, I believe! Sixty miles out, the coolness of air, and of deep breaths, My unexpected and pleasing friend from…
Preferring Christ – The Rule of St Benedict & Divine Mercy Chaplet Heal the Heart & Soul Upon Dwelling in the Lord’s Tent
Preferring Christ - The Rule of St Benedict & Divine Mercy Chaplet Heal the Heart & Soul Upon Dwelling in the Lord's Tent Sunday, September 13, 2020 9:26 AM I have learned love with God and his people at the most intimate level. I feel touched, blessed, and holy upon such occurrences. Reading as the…
Looking to the Light of the Interior Life
Nothing Whenever I feel lost in misery I aspire to turn my thoughts, feelings, sensitivities, frustrations, and anger towards myself, not to the external world (though at times it does creep in), to face my own demons. We all have them. But in the return of my own heart and soul I become much more…
Metaphoristical Photography
As a seeker I turn my intuitive nature inward. The labrynth of my soul has many rooms. These rooms are graced with creativity because God is Good! He has blessed me. The preceding images I discover great delight. "Delight yourself in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart." I have…
VOCATION
Vocations may come and go. As Barry Lopez states, "I think of the dignity that is ours when we cease to demand the truth and realize that the best we can have of those substantial truths that guide our lives is metaphorical - a story….Beyond this, that the interior landscape is a metaphorical representation of…
Prayer # 3
When I became spiritually awake and I can hear your Word Lord Jesus as You call me forth, my heart shall hear Your every word. You have pressed upon my heart, my soul, my mind, that to be called by name as occurred in 1970, I heard an incredibly special reverence and awe for a spiritual linguistical…
Prayer # 1
Mother Mary, I have been here with you in your Seven Sorrows, and in great gratitude I offer you my life in a total consecration and with great reparations of my sins. I am soulfully sorry for ever having offended you and our Lord Jesus Christ. Please set me on a path and direction to…
Innocent Blood
I am a created man (as all others), with empty words upon my spoken dialect that spills the blood of martyrs within a biased land; an emptiness so deep, and oh, so truly damned. I am this savage world that seizes then destroys with a biased claim. I am this pit of eternal fires where…
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