This Journey Begins

After feeling this “tug” for a long while to write and share more deeply about the mystery of prayer and the call to intimacy with God, and, in addition, to share about my own vision of the great importance of the contemplative and monastic vocation within the Church, I have decided to create this website.

I already have a primary website, At the Wellspring of Childhood: Meditations from the Silence of Solitude, and there is a great deal of content available there (and ever growing). However, I wanted to create a different avenue, a different “space” in which I could express things that complement what is shared there, and yet bear their own unique contours. Above all, I am feeling called to focus more directly on offering an “education in prayer” (to use John Paul II’s words) and on the meaning of authentic “spirituality.” I have been encountering both deep desires and concrete struggles in these areas in my relationships with others, and also a degree of ignorance or misunderstanding. In response to this, I feel convicted by the Lord with the need to share what I have been given, to place myself as the service of this mystery.

The two sites will be linked to one another, “sisters” expressing the same mystery, only from different angles. As for this one, I will post on the “Blog” when new content is added, so you are welcome to follow through WordPress (if you are connected) or through email. I will also organize the content in the menu at the top of the site, for easier access to previously added material.

Blessings and love!

Joshua Elzner