In a culture of concocted needs, the more we have the more we want. The more we want the more we need. The more we need the more needy and wanting we become and, in the words of Rabbi Abraham Heschel, “Short is the way from need to greed.” ~ DJM

This Lent I am dipping into the ARCHIVES and selecting writings from the last ten years of THE ALMOND TREE. For today’s reading about the boredom that suggests a hole in the soul CLICK HERE.

“Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be
a crimson-cresseted east,”