Only a Sojourner

I am a sojourner on a life-long journey, moving both inward and outward, exploring both my own inner landscape and the terrain in which others live. While still moving into the center, I'm also stretching toward the edges. These reflections trace some of my exploration.

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Learn to Bear the Beams of Love

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Fat Tuesday – February 25, 2020 The season of Lent suggests starkness, struggle, and difficulty. Typical Lenten images include desert and ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Christmas Day with Thomas Merton

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Today on Christmas, I’ll share with you Thomas Merton’s words. In Seasons of Celebration , he writes about the birth of Christ. Merton is pa...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Ballets, Spotlights, and God

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Every day this month I'm listening to Advent texts, mostly drawn from Isaiah's vision of who God is and what God is doing in the wor...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Learning a Different Wisdom

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There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all. There must be a time of d...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

A More Expansive Dance

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Fr Thomas Keating told an apocryphal story about an elder monk on his hands and knees, combing through the grass in front of the hut that wa...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Resurrection Sunday: Let Him Easter in Us

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For a week or so I’ve been drawn to the Gerard Manley Hopkins line, “ Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness in us. ” I’m reco...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Holy Saturday: On Tombs, Prisoners, and Antelopes in the Grass

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On Christmas Day 2018, I opened a gift from my son, the junior high principal, the poet. It was a hardback edition of a William Stafford bo...
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JWebb
I am a husband, father, son, brother, and friend. By personal identity I am an explorer, continually discovering new vistas in the terrain of the soul. Vocationally, I have spent most of my adult life as an ordained minister guiding others in spiritual formation and contemplative spirituality. After over 17 years as the founding director of The Center for Christian Spirituality (Houston, TX), I am now helping persons connect more deeply with God, self, others, and the created world as a spiritual companion and guide. I find life in my own exploration and in accompanying others on the spiritual journey of exploration.
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