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

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)

2025 Review and Connection in 2026

Today, I’m happy to tell you my favorites of 2025. But, I’m giving us a challenge for 2026 too!

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Don’t miss out on the new website here and remember every Sunday in Lent at 4pm EST I’m doing a LIVE Session with a co-host on the themes of Lent with guidance from the desert elders. Links with be here for that.

411 on gluttony and lust

I’m starting a series on the main chapters of my book. We begin with gluttony and lust and learn how the desert elders dealt with these two issues that reared their heads in the desert setting. By understanding their perspective, we can fortify ourselves against the very same obstacles that sometimes foiled them.

You can watch a video version of this at the YouTube Channel

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[Howard Thurman] Limited Series: Part 11 – FINAL episode!

Imagination, the Angelos of God is how we finish off our wisdom series with Dr Howard Thurman.

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Limited Series – part 10 : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit | Retaliation and Reconciliation

This and one more installment will bring an end to this series that offers Howard Thurman’s wisdom from 1963 to our time. It’s a time when violence, hate, and othering are quite apparent and hope for human reconciliation in our nation and world seem scant. Thurman’s thoughts on what is needed ring ever true.

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