The Other Deepest Thing

Always - Joy

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the…

Apr 9 • John Ray

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Lent 2026: Holy Week - God is Dead

“I pray to God to rid me of God” - Meister Eckhart

Apr 1 • John Ray

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March 2026

Lent 2026 Week 6: Hands on the Wheel

Jerry Jeff and Hope on the ride home

Mar 25 • John Ray

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Lent 2026 Week 5: Making Room

“​​We would rather be ruined than changed, we would rather die in our dread than climb the cross or the moment and let our illusion die.” W.H. Auden

Mar 18 • John Ray

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Lent 2026 Week 4: Delay, Deny, Defend

Who? What? Me?

Mar 12 • John Ray

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Lent 2026 Week 3: Preparing the skull

"All the sounds of this valley run together into one great echo, a song that is sung by all the spirits of this valley. Only a hunter hears it." - Chaim…

Mar 6 • John Ray

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February 2026

Lent 2026 Week 2: The ER, Ash Wednesday and a Funeral

The life you save is the life you lose.

Feb 25 • John Ray

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Lent 2026 Week 1: Ash Wednesday

“To be forgetful of death is to be forgetful of life” - Ladislaus Boros, The Mystery of death

Feb 18 • John Ray

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December 2025

Setting a place for death

The invitation of winter solstice

Dec 17, 2025 • John Ray

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October 2025

Sun and Moon

Train rides and how we know what we know

Oct 18, 2025 • John Ray

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April 2025

Why Keep doing this?

The best I can offer you is this

Apr 2, 2025 • John Ray

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December 2024

Needs, Wants, Dreams

A new season for writing

Dec 30, 2024 • John Ray

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