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“Why Does Love Take So Long?”
A Dialogue with St. Isaac the Syrian Disciple: Father, there is something I cannot understand. You spend so much time laying the foundation before speaking of the mysteries of divine love. You return again and again to humility, silence, repentance, watchfulness, tears, and detachment. You speak fiercely about letting go of attachments, about guarding the heart, about fleeing whatever cools our love for God. Some who hear you find this severe. They wonder why you cannot simpl
Father Charbel Abernethy
Jul 164 min read
The Long Shadow of One Unwatched Thought
How a Heart Slowly Turns from God While Believing It Is Still Serving Him “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.” — Proverbs 4:23 David’s fall does not begin with Bathsheba. It begins much earlier, with a small absence. Scripture tells us quietly that “in the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle… David remained at Jerusalem.” There is no thunderclap, no dramatic rebellion against God. There is only a king who is no lon
Father Charbel Abernethy
Jul 44 min read
The Weariness That Comes at Sixty
There comes a point in life when a man realizes he is tired. Not depressed. Not hopeless. Not wishing for death. Simply tired. Tired in his mind, tired in his body, tired in his soul. He looks back and sees years of striving. Years of carrying responsibilities, meeting expectations, building projects, teaching, caring for others, solving problems, remaining accessible, pushing himself forward through discipline and determination. Much of it was good. Much of it served others.
Father Charbel Abernethy
Jun 172 min read
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