Witness, NM

Discerning the Way “I am a rose of Sharon, A lily of the valleys.  As a lily among the brambles,             So is my love among the maidens” (Song of Songs 2:1-2).  Discrimination is what keeps us walking the royal road, keeping us free of delusion; this is the Buddhist right view on the eightfold…

Notes from stillness “This it is to be a perfect man, to be sanctified throughout; even ‘to have a heart so all-flaming with the love of God as continually to offer up every thought, word, and work, as a spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God through Christ.’ In every thought of our hearts, in every word…

Notes from a closed road “O the depth of the riches of the condescension and love of God, who hath not only pardoned us and delivered us from death, but given us righteousness and sanctification; not given them us only, but as Scripture says, himself made his Son such to us, by taking our nature…

And putting away childish things “We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ , the Son of God, begotten of the Father [the only-begotten; that is, of the essence of the Father, God of God], Light of Light, very God of very…

Walking to the Precipice “Since the Son hath made me free, Let me taste my liberty; Thee behold with open face, Triumph in thy saving grace, Thy great will delight to prove, Glory in thy perfect love. Abba, Father, hear thy child, Late in Jesus reconciled; Hear, and all the graces shower, All the joy,…

Notes from Class cont. “‘God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ But why does he glory? Is it because Christ had suffered in his stead and had excused him from suffering? No, by no means. But it was because his Christian profession had called him to the…

Notes Written in Class “The Christian’s great conquest over the world is all contained in the mystery of Christ upon the Cross. It was there, and from thence, that He taught all Christians how they were to come out of and conquer the world and what they were to do in order to be His…

Deification: a recovery story “Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions…

Crystallising the World “… all the powers of the soul together, because of the union in the inner cellar, drink of the Beloved… This draught of God’s most deep wisdom makes the soul forget all the things of this world, and consider all its previous knowledge, and the knowledge of the whole world besides, as…