The Wild Goose and the Ego

On Celtic images of an untamed Spirit — and the daily work of telling God's stirring from your own.

Celtic monks pictured the Holy Spirit not as a gentle dove but as a wild goose — loud, untamed, and just as likely to surprise or contradict you as comfort you. You'll sit with that image alongside a decades-old newsroom memory of wind as a sign of the Spirit, then move to harder ground: how to catch your own ego dressed up as devotion, and ask honestly…

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