Through Our Wounds
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” - C.S. Lewis
There’s a strange yet compelling paradox in this quote from Lewis. In it, he introduces the tension between pain and presence. We spend so much time trying to avoid discomfort, yet time and again it becomes the place where our illusions fall away and something more honest, more human, more real begins to emerge. Not despite our wounds, but through them.
At CALLED, we often say that church isn’t something you attend; it’s something you live. And that means paying attention to our longings, to our struggles, to the quiet voice of God speaking to us in unexpected and often unwanted ways. That’s what The Attentive Heart is really about. Not just spiritual conversations, but ongoing invitations to live more fully, more presently, more authentically in the presence of God.
Peace,
Fr. John
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During a recent recording for our podcast The Attentive Heart, I sat down with Ryan—a storyteller, theologian, and fellow pilgrim. What unfolded was not a biography, but a window into a life being lived with fierce honesty and sacred curiosity. His reflections on pain, identity, and faith felt less like answers and more like companions for the road.
