Contemplative in the Mud

The Convenience and Passion of Dryness

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Benjamin Embley

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VanI rejoice a lot in this state of spiritual dryness, because, by it, I avoid inconveniencing the good God. In effect, if I lived always in a state of sensible fervour, I would have so many things to say to him, so much that he’d have no time to rest, not even a moment to decorate my soul with a still greater beauty. It seems, then, that my state of dryness is a sign that the good God is really “impassioned” with the beauty of his little friend.
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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