Contemplative in the Mud

Obedience is Worth More

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Benjamin Embley

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Once while thinking of the severe penance [another woman] performed and about how… I could have done more if not for obedience to my confessors… The Lord told me: “… Do you see all the penance she does? I value your obedience more.”
Saint Teresa of Jesus

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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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