"Where Sin Abounded, Grace Did Much More Abound" Romans 5:20
I have often struggled with perfectionism—the desire to "get it all right" by whatever elusive religious standard may be present, real or imagined—because I was afraid of what would happen if I got anything wrong. This is a trauma response, I now realize, that had been beaten into me beginning at the age of two… Continue reading God in Our Image
The kabbalists made the fantastic claim that their mystical teachings derived from the Garden of Eden. This suggests that Kabbalah conveys our original nature: the unbound awareness of Adam and Eve. We have lost this nature, the most ancient tradition, as the inevitable consequence of tasking the fruit of knowledge, the price of maturity and… Continue reading In the Garden
Diary of a Christian Mystic 