Category: Heart

  • Prosousia: The Isness That Faces Toward Us

    There are moments in contemplative life when language itself seems to lean forward, offering a new word for an old and living truth. Such a word, for me, is prosousia. I offer it here not as a scholarly coinage but as a quiet, practical name for the relational God who attends to us—who turns toward…

  • Benesentia: the Felt-Presence of Blessing

    Benesentia: the Felt-Presence of Blessing

    A new word arrived recently—though perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it emerged. In the midst of quiet contemplation, I was attending to the subtle textures of the heart, listening for resonant syllables that seemed to rise from stillness while in contemplative dialogue. Then, serendipitously, I noticed the word had emerged in…

  • Binary Universe Revisited: Vibrations

    Is there anybody out there? Hello?… Is there anybody in there? … Is there anyone home? Lyrics, “Is there Anybody Out There” & “Comfortably Numb,” Pink Floyd – The Wall Who among us has drifted away from a prayer life because of the growing feeling that there was no One listening, that our prayers seemed…