Contemplative in the Mud

He is Hollowing Out in Your Soul Capacities to Receive Him

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Benjamin Embley

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Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity n the infirmarySince you allow me to speak to you as a beloved sister, it seems to me that God is asking you for abandonment and unlimited trust during the painful times when you feel those terrible voids. Believe that at those times He is hollowing out in your soul capacities to receive Him, capacities that are, in a way, as infinite as He himself. Try then to be wholly joyful under the hand that crucifies you…
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906)

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

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