ALWAYS PARTLY BROKEN
Is he broken, or merely breaking into something new again?
Many of us fall in love more than once in our brief lives. Sometimes a former love object, which we thought was safely put to rest, comes alive in us again. Soon, we're wrestling with different versions of ourselves.
Raymond Seers, the former Brother Adam, has never been a consistently cautious person. He is a convert back to "normalcy" after his youthful years of reckless, but always earnest, experiments in spiritual-seeking. Now a settled householder and mid-life daydreamer, he cannot seem to forget that he once tried to be a real mystic in a world-famous, monastery. Ghosts of the past haunt his sleep, so much so that he eventually gives himself permission to re-examine the wonder and sense of failure leading to the hard break with his former self.
PARTLY BROKEN POEMS AND SCRIPTURE PRAYERS
Is it possible to build a bridge between the world of the spirit and personal experience? This may be the very purpose of prayer.
Here is a collection of prayerful reflections fed by a continual stream of biblical images. It is a kind of prayer also known as lectio divina, or divine reading, when one responds directly to the Spirit. At the core of PARTLY BROKEN POEMS is a conviction that more is happening here than meets the eye. It is a matter of the heart.
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