Contemplative in the Mud

Grain of Sand in the Desert

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Benjamin Embley

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The Little Flower spoke
Of being like a grain of sand
Small, almost insignificant, worn
And maybe too
We can go to where silence is born
In the desert, with Jesus, God-Man,
Keep him company, a little grain of friendship
Chattering in the breeze
In the desert these forty days.

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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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