“The beauty and illumination of Jim’s language, whether he is writing about trauma or God’s presence, open the heart. To read this book is to be changed forever.” — Bonnie Badenoch(Author of The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships) I was overly giddy, strangely nervous, but above all grateful to be in conversation with Jim about his breathtaking new book, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation. Each page is a thousand pages deep, that is how Jim walks about the world, drawing from the depths and teaching with winsome grace, poetics, and …
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It’s Not About the Beer, It’s About the Beer
“It’s not about the chocolate, it’s about the chocolate.” — Shawn Askinosie (A musing inspired by Shawn Askinosie’s story about Belgium beer brewing monks and the parables of Jesus) There once was a monastery in Belgium that was famous in its county for its delicious beer. And at the same time, on the other side of Belgium there was a Greedy Young Capitalist who was gifted a bottle of this beer. Upon tasting it for the first time, the Greedy Young Capitalist had an idea. So, the Greedy Young Capitalist set out for the monastery, and after days of travel, …
Prairie Eye and Woods Eye
“There are two eyes in the human head–the eye of mystery, and the eye of harsh truth–the hidden and the open–the woods eye and the prairie eye.” – Bill Holm I have fondness for people who belong to a place; whether city or a landscape. They tend speak in a particular way or with a certain cadence. Knowledgeable about particulars that tourists overlook. There was a writer from the Minnesota prairies named Bill Holm. who translates this sense of belonging to a landscape into perspective, a metaphor for our vision of reality. Bill Holm writes*, Holm later admits that he …