Contemplative in the Mud

Many a Year of Weeding and Watering

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Benjamin Embley

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VanTo make of me a beautiful rose, God has made use of many a year of weeding and watering, that is, by means of many sufferings and many tears.
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

    This reminds me of a line from a Robert Frost poem: ‘the petal of the rose it was that stung’, although the poem is probably saying the opposite. But isn’t that the beauty of faith?

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