Contemplative in the Mud

Not Enjoyment But Yet Joy

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Benjamin Embley

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therese5In spite of this trial which takes from me every feeling of enjoyment, I can still cry out: “You, O Lord, have made me glad by your work” [cf. Ps 92:4]. For what joy can be greater than that of suffering for Your love? The more intense the suffering is and the less it appears to men, the more it causes You to smile, O my God.
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face

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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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