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With God
Not more religious activity. A few unhurried minutes with the day’s Gospel, and room to notice what stirs — learning to receive instead of doing more.
A lot of us can answer every question about everyone else. Ask about ourselves, and we go quiet.
Somewhere along the way, the person we were made to be got buried. Under old wounds. Under relationships that broke. Under the pressure to perform, to produce, to be useful. That’s not a failure on anyone’s part — most of us just never had the permission or the space to be otherwise.
Restore Being is that space. It’s slow, and it isn’t glamorous. It’s less about doing more for God and more about learning to receive, in the ordinary stuff: a Gospel reading, a few minutes of quiet, a sentence written down at night.
We begin with Catholics, because that’s where we come from. If you’re a Christian from anywhere else and you recognise the longing, you’re welcome here too.
