A New Book (short and compact) by Charles Upton:
Meditations in Time of War
The wars now burning in our world are reflected within us as invisible fire—and the steel and the flint that first lit that fire are hidden behind the dark curtain of it. War, in the end, always returns to the place where it was born. Because of this, the outer war can be consciously used to kindle the inner one, to declare and carry on that “Greater Jihad” which is the furnace of spiritual transformation. These 12 Meditations—if you can really hear them, without shield, without armor—will take you to the field of that inner, transformative war, the place where the necessary courage, and the effective power, and the only viable strategy, is God’s irresistible Command. But they can only do this if you already know, or are able to learn, patience, one-pointedness of attention, and submissiveness-to-the Divine Will: how to ask, how to listen, and how to obey. Consequently these Meditations are not to be read horizontally, from beginning-to-end, in discursive or narrative time, so much as vertically excavated, beyond time entirely. And, God willing and us responding, to excavate these words is to excavate the heart.
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