Joseph Grant

If you are about gospel work, with a head for justice and a tender heart, it helps each day to cleanse the lens.

Presence exacts its coin—our dearly held desire for self-preoccupation, and the fantasy of control that presumes to preside over and above.

What prevents you from being fully immersed in this moment, the holy ground of “now”?

Pained by opportunities missed, and the many violations of life, still we give thanks.

In this world darkened by despair and deep division, we fumble dimly, to see past self-interest, fears, and endless feuding.

Amid the tumult of these electrically charged, frenzied times, contemplative living does not propose an escape from our very real, practical, and sometimes intractable problems.