Joyful Contemplation (No Fooling!)

If you are engaged in a serious and sustained practice of silent prayer and contemplative spirituality, then you need to be a very somber, sober, and serious person, for the mystical life is no laughing matter. . . .

Uh… April Fool! (notice the date this blog post was published)

I was inspired to write about this topic not only because today is April 1, b…