Contemplative in the Mud

Dryness for the Sake of Others

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Benjamin Embley

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Van, 12 years oldI don’t hear Jesus… I don’t know where he’s gone. I would like to call him back, but I worry that I might disturb him. So I let him go where he wants. Ah, I know where he’s gone! He went into the deep forest to rescue the lost lamb; he walked up to Jerusalem, where he is far from his intimate friends. So, now I can accept my solitude and not be surprised at my state of dryness.
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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    sandyfaithking

    I don’t understand why that makes perfect sense, but it does.

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      Ben (เบ็น)

      Yes. It really doesn’t make sense if one thinks that Jesus, being God, is everywhere. But in some logic of sacrifice for the sake of others, it does make sense.

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