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Mystic Monday: Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)

Mystic Monday: Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)

“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.”

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Mystic Monday: Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)
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[The quotation above is taken from Underhill’s Essentials of Mysticism and Other Essays (1941)]

Growing up, it was rare to know any “only children.” Families were bigger then.

The term “only child” seemed to carry with it a combination of pity and condescension. I recall spending my first six or seven years as an “only child” and would hear that label whi…

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