• 313: A Journey from Head Knowledge to Heart Connection (Alan on Thomas Merton)

  • Oct 21 2024
  • Length: 13 mins
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313: A Journey from Head Knowledge to Heart Connection (Alan on Thomas Merton)

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  • Thirty years ago, I was visiting one of my very favorite sorts of places—a bookstore. It was a Barnes & Noble in Pasadena, California, and I was browsing through the Faith section of books. There I saw a book by an author I’d heard of but never read. The author was Thomas Merton, and the title was New Seeds of Contemplation.

    It was Fall 1994 when I picked up a copy of Thomas Merton’s book New Seeds of Contemplation. I was a college pastor in the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California, and I’d been on a spiritual formation journey for a few years by then.

    Today, I’m sharing from my journal entries in that season as I read the book. The first chapter posed a question I was asking at the time: “What is contemplation?” There weren’t many of my colleagues who were using that sort of language about their spiritual lives, but I was finding it increasingly inviting in my own life with God.

    One of Merton’s insights that spoke me then was that, “In contemplation...we know by `unknowing."

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