FleuveVie in English
Essays and meditations that extend the books, dwell within the questions they open, and invite the reader into a thoughtful conversation.
Article One — Recognizing the Illusion
Not every kind of peace is the fruit of transformation. Some forms of calm appear when the heart has learned to stop asking the questions that might unsettle it.
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Three independent points of entry, joined by one question: How can we become truthful before God without condemning ourselves?
Prayer, service, and the language of faith can open the heart. Without our realizing it, they can also protect the image we have learned to present.
Read the meditationThe prayer “Search me, O God” is not an invitation to live in suspicion of ourselves. It expresses confidence that a loving light can reveal without crushing us.
Read the meditationThe Foundational Stories
Essays accompanying The Dust and the Silence, The River and the Captive, The Blood and the Garment, and Rumor and Grace.
In the middle of a trial turned into a spectacle, Jesus does not answer immediately. He bends down. That silent movement changes everyone’s place within the circle.
Continue readingShe has no rank, freedom, or authority. Yet Naaman’s journey toward healing begins with the words of a young captive whom power might never have heard.
Continue readingThe woman knows in her body that she has been healed. Yet Jesus stops the crowd and calls her “Daughter,” as though healing must also restore a face, a voice, and a place among others.
Continue readingThe Samaritan woman returns to the village she may have learned to avoid. Her shame has not necessarily vanished, but something stronger was born beside the well.
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