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Stand Upright Now
What does it mean, psychologically, to be bent over for eighteen years — to live in a state where one cannot look up? This meditation reads the Gospel healing not…
Return the Cloak Before Sunset
These reflections treat the ancient commandments of Exodus and Christ's summation of the law not as moral imperatives imposed from outside, but as descriptions of an inner economy — the…
One More Year
These reflections approach the Gospels as documents of inner psychology — maps of what happens when a human being is confronted with the demand to change and meets it with…
Settle With Your Adversary Now
These reflections explore a psychological puzzle embedded in two seemingly unrelated scriptural passages: why human beings can read every external sign with precision yet remain illiterate before the signs of…
Who Burns in Secret
These two readings — Paul's prayer for an inner fortification so vast it exceeds all knowing, and Christ's stark declaration that he has come to cast fire and division upon…
Much Has Been Entrusted
These readings place two seemingly different ideas side by side — a hidden mystery now disclosed, and a servant who must remain awake at an unknown hour. Read psychologically, both…
Built Together Into Wakefulness
These readings pair an architectural metaphor — being "built up together" into a dwelling place — with a parable of servants who must stay awake in the night. Read esoterically,…
Barns Cannot Hold What You Are
What does it mean to be "dead" while still walking, talking, accumulating? Today's readings place side by side two images — Paul's portrait of a humanity sleepwalking through its own…
Whose Likeness Do You Bear?
A question about taxation becomes, under esoteric scrutiny, a question about identity itself — about what in us is stamped by the world and what, if anything, still bears the…
Fall Into the Ground
What does it mean, psychologically, to die while still alive? These readings from Paul and from John both circle a single paradox — that something in us must be relinquished…
