November 26th, 2024
Inescapable truths have always struck me less like executioners and more like angels. Wrestle your executioner if you will, but the best outcome you should expect will be a subtle shift in his estimation of you while he delivers on the irreducible result of why he is there. It can only be a desperate event. He is and will forever be your executioner after all, both before he becomes your friend or confident and after. But wrestle your angel: already this sounds like a different business entirely. Not many people can recall a time in their lives when they wrestled an angel. In our age this is often mistaken for more personal conflict, more intra-psychic bamboozling, or maybe an inner child trying to stay childlike against the odds. But angels aren’t part of our psyche, in my experience. They are not part of the inner architecture. They might, though, be part of the architecture of the way it is. Or you could say, angels might be the way life has of being itself, come suddenly to call on we who are trying to live at any cost.
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How It All Could Be was first published in 2009.
Now this 38-page gem of a book is printed in English, as well as French, Spanish, and Polish.
Available in Paperback, Audio CD, and Audio Download
NEWS! A handful of good folks have translated How It All Could Be into German. We will work on finalizing the file and send out an announcement as soon as Wie Alles Sein Könnte is available for purchase.
Is the natural order of things itself a miracle? How does the dying of someone you love fit into your idea of justice or mercy or compassion? How about when it is someone you don’t love? Here is where you find out what you really believe about what life is for, whether it is fair or just or worth the trouble.
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The heaviest prayers I have heard in my life are those that remember with grace and make gratitude for the holes, the gaps, in what is easily understood, the ragged, uncertain immensity of life, of which our lives are a small and magnificent part. Praying is a way of feeling the edge of what you know, to get a feeling for the rest of it.
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