A "Seminary Update"
"Prayer is the test of everything. When prayer is right, everything is right." There comes a point in the life of prayer where the line between love of God and love of neighbor becomes significantly blurred, and the more one engages in the pursuit of God (and the true self) the more this line perpetually blurs. This is not to say that God is my neighbor, or that my neighbor is God (on some level these things can be said, I suppose). God is in my neighbor, though, and my neighbor is in God. It was exactly a year ago when this reality hit me on an existential level, where I couldn’t help but to see all of life through this spiritual purview. I had just returned from my lengthy stay at New Camaldoli Hermitage. During my stay there I began to experience a shift within me that I couldn’t quite name. It felt like coming home, but it also felt completely new. I could feel the change blossoming within but I could not summon words adequate enough to depict the reality of the sh...