{"id":39,"date":"2006-03-29T07:29:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T14:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-08-02T18:06:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T01:06:47","slug":"practicing-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2006\/03\/practicing-resurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"

So one of the suggestions of my discernment committee was to read the book Practicing Resurrection<\/em> by Nora Gallagher. I finished the book this morning and there were three passages I bookmarked for further contemplation.<\/p>\n

On discernment:<\/p>\n

I had thought at the beginning that it would be a matter of looking for signs or listening for voices, not too many steps away from divining tea leaves. But it had become a different matter. It had been as if I were invited into a slow stripping away to expose what lay underneath. Some aspect of myself or a part of the past would rise up, something left unattended and unresolved, to which I’d grown so accustomed I did not see it, like the low-lying tree branch in the backyard I instinctively duck. Often a person would bump into this long-held secret I kept from myself, sometimes by accident or as if by accident, and insist that I take a look.<\/p>\n

On monks:<\/p>\n

I think they are men who do not expect their faith to end their own suffering.<\/p>\n

On exile:<\/p>\n

It is typical of exile that it changes you, and when you return, you don’t fit in the way you did before.<\/p>\n

As I prepare for the Prov 8 Higher Ed & Young Adult Gathering this weekend, I have really been listening to the silence. I haven’t heard much…but I haven’t been as afraid of the silence either. As I “turn off the noise” this weekend…I will be keeping these three quotes in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So one of the suggestions of my discernment committee was to read the book Practicing Resurrection by Nora Gallagher. I finished the book this morning and there were three passages I bookmarked for further contemplation. On discernment: I had thought at the beginning that it would be a matter of looking for signs or listening … <\/p>\n

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