Our spiritual journey is a love affair. It is a leaning into God, listening longingly for His heartbeat. ~Betty
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The Science of the Psalms
Many thousands of years ago, every joyous, negative, fearful, and even murderous emotion of the human heart was put to music in the majestic poetry of the Psalms. Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and American writer, said, “The Psalms are more […]
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August 1
Conversion is an ongoing process of being born over and over again to a higher and higher level of acceptance and understanding. Finally, we come into the likeness of Christ and mirror his love to a pain-filled world. ~Betty
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Becoming Nothing
Edward Hopper. Detail from Nighthawks. 1942. [oil on canvas]. Art Institute of Chicago. When we come to this, we become everything. In finding our way to humility, paradoxically, we find everything—we find our glorious true-self. The self-emptying of the Incarnate […]
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July 18
Becoming real is an unlearning. As we do the painful work of emptying ourselves of our ego and illusions, Love gently comes in, enlarging our soul and filling the emptied space with the Spirit of God, the fullness of Christ.
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My Hidden Life Awakened
All right, Lord, I’ve been reading about what a good Christian should do and how I should live my life, but I want to say to You that it’s not working for me. You promised me joy, You promised me […]
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July 4
Every time we make a choice for hope, we are turning the part of us that chooses into something different than it was before. ~Betty
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A Letter From Betty
Dear Ones, When I met hope, in my fifty-fifth year, on the southward side of a high mountain in North Carolina, it was unmistakable. Hope, for many years of my spiritual journey, was overshadowed by faith and love. Love’s relentless […]
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