"The human heart is a capacity for God. Prayer, then, is the development of the art of communion. We are called to develop the disciplines required for loving and open communion with God, the world, others, and ourselves. We need to recover the art of communion and so recover the universe as God's, and rediscover our roots in God, in the world, in one another, and in our inner selves."
Rachel Hosmer and Alan Jones
When I first read this quote from Friends of Silence, I did not recognize these names although Alan Jones sounded vaguely familiar. I searched the internet, and discovered that Rachel Hosmer was a nun and the founder of the Order of St. Helena. Alan Jones was an Episcopal priest and dean emeritus of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. I am finding that when I am researching a name on the internet, I frequently need to sort through names of basketball players, film stars, and CEO's. Such are the times we find ourselves in. I am not entirely comfortable in these times, but I do not get a sense that God does not always call us to seek comfort; we are called to become aware. Sometimes that can be pretty uncomfortable. However, discomfort does not mean that we are doing something wrong. It means we are exploring what our souls long for us to know.
When I first read this quote from Friends of Silence, I did not recognize these names although Alan Jones sounded vaguely familiar. I searched the internet, and discovered that Rachel Hosmer was a nun and the founder of the Order of St. Helena. Alan Jones was an Episcopal priest and dean emeritus of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. I am finding that when I am researching a name on the internet, I frequently need to sort through names of basketball players, film stars, and CEO's. Such are the times we find ourselves in. I am not entirely comfortable in these times, but I do not get a sense that God does not always call us to seek comfort; we are called to become aware. Sometimes that can be pretty uncomfortable. However, discomfort does not mean that we are doing something wrong. It means we are exploring what our souls long for us to know.
image: The Brightness of the Soul, June 2025
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