Author Description

Each of us has at sometime asked the question, “Why do I exist?”The answer to this question, says a monk of New Clairvaux, is found not in rational explanations of existence but in “living experience hidden in Living Truth, awaited in faith for another day when God will draw us completely into Himself.”Drawing upon his own personal experiences as well as the traditions of the Cistercians, the Desert Fathers, and Eastern Orthodox Christians, the author of “Don’t You Belong to Me?” shows us how to follow the “inner promptings of grace” which leads us to experience a life that is complete “God-sourced.”Two specific ways to powerfully experience our God-centeredness are prayer and Scripture reading; the author concretely shows the reader how to pray the “Centering Prayer,” the “Jesus Prayer,” and how to read the Scriptures with the heart, not just in the head, in “lectio divina.”To read “Don’t You Belong to Me?” is to be present to the author’s experience of God as the “core of being” and to become aware that “God is within the core, and all through the core, and beyond the core, closer to the core than the core.”