Contemplative in the Mud

Joy without Sadness and Sadness without Joy

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Benjamin Embley

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VanYou see that, in this world, joy without tears is also sadness, and that sadness without joy is even more unbearable. As a result, if we do not know how to change sadness into joy, and to offer this joy to God, our life will be so burdened under the weight of sadness that our soul will lose all interest in the spiritual life.
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.

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