Erie Chapman
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Days 306-307 – Trapped
The great thinker Schopenhauer believed that our lives personify longing. Recently, I felt a strange dose of this longing while trapped in the soul-killing world of a shopping mall. – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 302-303 – Love Index
“We can’t get paid to love. We can only live to love.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 295-296 – Your Life’s Song
“Imagine your life as a song. What pitch and tone and notes make up its verses? How do you discover your song?” – Reverend Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 292-294 – “Dark Beauty”
“Pain is always an expensive teacher. Why is it so hard for the rest of us to listen to what our agonies illuminate for us?” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 288-289 – Sightless Among Miracles
“Passion can be satisfied. Desire cannot. Splitting the moon means choosing on which side you will live.” – Reverend Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 285-287 – Our Inner Companion
“Perhaps, this is what is most precious in our lives: to see and be seen, to love and be loved, to touch when we can, to quietly sense each other within each day.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 261-262 – The Price of Grace
“The high price Grace requires is that we pay for her by facing every moment, not just the happy ones. Lacking this, we fall into the half-light of ordinary life. Today offers itself to us. Tonight beckons.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 251-253 – Married to the Earth – And Scarred by Her
When we turn away from God, life becomes darkness. When we welcome Love, our marriage to the earth is sealed with eternal peace. Continue reading
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Days 247-248 “Our Secret Destiny”
“It is the traveler, not the travel, that leads to the discovery (or leaves hidden) our secret destiny. The discovery of our destiny turns not on the future, but on our willingness, right now, to find the courage to cross… Continue reading
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