Contemplative in the Mud

All the Way Down

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Benjamin Embley

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4 comments on All the Way Down

Charles JournetWe must go all the way down to the bottom. He [God] wants our whole heart. It is not only our behaviour he wants.
Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)

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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.

4 responses to “All the Way Down”

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    sandyfaithking

    Reminds me of Acts 13:22: ‘And when He had removed [Saul], He raised up David to be their king: of him He testified and said, “I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart [conforming to my will and purposes], who will do all my will.” (AMP)

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      sandyfaithking

      *’all My will’.

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      Ben (เบ็น)

      And yet, without denying that doing God’s will is involved, it’s not just us doing his will that he wants. He also just wants to dwell in us, to have a relationship with us, to have our whole heart. =)

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        sandyfaithking

        Amen. To live and move and have our being :)

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