As I noted previously, I have been working on an extended edition of the short primer on the heart of the Gospel. I recently finished it and made it available for purchase (or for reading online). It is over twice the length of the short primer text. I hope that you will find this book (even though imperfect) fruitful and life-changing. It has been in long gestation and speaks of the central mysteries of human existence, which I believe we desperately thirst to know and experience to be truly happy. May God grant us all this happiness in the breathtaking beauty of his love.

Below are links to the published edition as well as to the online text on this website:

AT THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL: THE LOVE IN WHOM ALL LINES CONVERGE

ONLINE TEXT OF AT THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL

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Joshua

I know that your heart yearns, little one, to create something beautiful, a testament of love, a reflection, in the dimness of this world, of the radiant beauty of my own eternal light. I know the longing within to give birth without, the desire to create, sharing in eternal creativity. I want you to know, beloved, and to feel that the greatest masterpiece which I desire for you is the unspeakable beauty which is you yourself. You, the one whom I infinitely love, are the icon, transparent to my shining glory, enfolded in my grace, a blaze of fiery light bursting through the eyes, a figure whose countenance, whose heart, whose life is a reflection of the life, the heart, the face which is my own.