LisaColonDeLay – Lisa Colón DeLay | Spiritual Formation and the Way of the Desert Elders

How rigidity means emotional immaturity

There’s a dynamic connection between flexibility and healthy personalities. It took me many years of healing to not be swept into self-hate when I messed up. Here’s what helped.

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The world on fire

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This audio is from a July 23, 2026 article I wrote on my substack page. You can find it at the following link and support in whatever way you can: https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/p/the-world-on-fire

Desire, Wanting, Bliss

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Here is a excerpt as part of the series I’ve created for my Spark My Muse YouTube Channel (Here’s the link to find the rest: youtube.com/@Sparkmymuse)

This part 4 in the series of 7 explores how the nature of desire is a signpost to the infinite. Longing, bliss, desire are more than they appear to be.

This series distills the too-often obtuse work of David Bentley Hart from his book The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss I think this book has many brilliant point, but most people find reading his work exhausting and don’t get to the gems. (If you’d like, you can find that book here: https://amzn.to/3QRFzIW)

Being, Consciousness, Bliss

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What you are about to hear is part two of seven in a series explaining a foundational book by David Bentley Hart.

My interest in high theism is strengthened by the fact that you can have a deep faith, be a skeptic, or a confused doubter and still embrace these first principles and ideas about existence.

Please enjoy all seven in the series as they roll out this summer at my youtube channel: youtube.com/@Sparkmymuse

Softness and Desire: Guest, Robert J. Monson

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Today, I give you some excerpts from my live chat conversation with scholar Robert J. Monson. We speak together some about the desert elders, but also about Robert’s work at the intersection of Blackness, disability, and softness (among other things) and we get into the topics of lust, sexuality, desire which the church has notoriously gotten wrong.

Please find the full replay of our time here (the Spark My Muse youtube channel), if you’d like. Becoming a subscriber costs nothing but is helpful to get the word out.

❤️ You’ll find more from me at my Substack and there you can contribute your support, starting under $2,

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