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        Above are photos taken last week while at the Abbey of Gethsemani.   Since I began making an annual silent retreat in 1992 I’ve taken hundreds of photos.   I always feel so blest by this opportunity.   I’m always surprised in what God reveals here on this prayerfully hallowed ground that has been prayed on 7-times-a-day by the Trappist monks since 1848.   My time is often marked by nameless healings and a profound sense of well-being.   Perhaps taking pictures is a way to capture all of that or even an attempt to take it home with me. Intellectually we all know that it isn’t possible. We can’t capture grace or healing or blessing. They’re more elusive and more powerful than that. The Psalmist tells us: “God’s mercies are new every morning.”   We know we needn’t be afraid.   And yet… It’s soulful work to trust God alone and to surrender our ideas, our plans, our will and our way, to His.   When in the course of a day, a week, a lifetime my ego continues to set the