Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity
Today I’d like to offer a reflection on the experience of some people who have struggled with sexual sin and the effects of sexual sin. Hopefully some of these reflections will be useful both for those who suffer the ongoing effects of sexual sin willingly entered into, and also some of the effects of sexual abuse.
But it’s important to say that these reflections are based on certain people’s experiences, and are not an assertion… [ read more ]
Without freedom, love is impossible. And as I said a couple of weeks ago, without freedom, true repentance is impossible. This is the same thing, of course, because true repentance involves opening ourselves in love of God, a willingness to throw ourselves into the open arms of Christ.
There is a place for force, but that place is only within ourselves. God will not force us into good, and he will not force us to… [ read more ]
St Theophan the Recluse said that, “Most people are like a shaving of wood which is curled round its central emptiness.”
Much of my life — and I assume, much of life for many of us — is directed at trying to fill that emptiness. The question to ask of ourselves, of course, is How? How do we do it? We all have instinctive, unconscious ways of doing it, ways that we have been practising… [ read more ]
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