Contemplative in the Mud

Armed with a Transfigured, Caressing Smile

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Benjamin Embley

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VanIn prison [in Communist North Vietnam], just as in the Love of Jesus, nothing can take from me the weapon of love. No affliction is able to take away from me the caressing smile that I allow to habitually appear on my emaciated face. And why the caress of my smile, if not for Jesus the Beloved?
Little Brother Marcel Văn CSsR (1928–1959)

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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.

2 responses to “Armed with a Transfigured, Caressing Smile”

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    Sr. Dorcee

    Wow. I so want to be like him when I grow up–which really means when I get little enough.

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      Ben (เบ็น)

      =)

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