Anthony Adoré — New Reflections https://anthonyadore.com New essays, reflections, and book news from author Anthony Adoré—writing on faith, desire, grief, identity, and the divided self. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:57:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://anthonyadore.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/anthony-adore-temporary-site-icon-512-66x66.png Anthony Adoré https://anthonyadore.com 32 32 https://anthonyadore.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/anthony-adore-temporary-site-icon-512-200x200.pngAnthony Adoréhttps://anthonyadore.com/144144 Leaning on the Horn in the Dark https://anthonyadore.com/leaning-on-the-horn/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:07:07 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9915824 A lone figure standing motionless on a rain-slicked night street
A car horn holds one note, a scream tears the street, and a boy keeps searching. On longing, silence, and the ache to be answered.
A car horn holds one note, a scream tears the street, and a boy keeps searching. On longing, silence, and the ache to be answered.]]> Leaning on the Horn in the Dark A car horn holds one note, a scream tears the street, and a boy keeps searching. On longing, silence, and the ache to be answered. Anthony Adoré Finding Peace When Bodies Alone Stop Being Enough https://anthonyadore.com/finding-peace-bodies-not-enough/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:00:49 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9915381 A solitary figure seated in a dim room at dawn, a single low window of grey light, the sheets of an empty bed nearby
You want peace, but the closeness keeps repeating and going flat. Here is why bodies alone exhaust themselves, and where quiet finally comes.
You want peace, but the closeness keeps repeating and going flat. Here is why bodies alone exhaust themselves, and where quiet finally comes.]]> Finding Peace When Bodies Alone Stop Being Enough You want peace, but the closeness keeps repeating and going flat. Here is why bodies alone exhaust themselves, and where quiet finally comes. Anthony Adoré Finding Your Way Back to Being Known https://anthonyadore.com/finding-way-back-to-being-known/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:02:00 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9914431 A lone figure standing in warm firelight, one hand pressed flat against a wooden table
Looking for real intimacy and finding only distance? Why understanding someone is not the same as being close, and how to stop hiding behind your own mind.
Looking for real intimacy and finding only distance? Why understanding someone is not the same as being close, and how to stop hiding behind your own mind.]]> Finding Your Way Back to Being Known Looking for real intimacy and finding only distance? Why understanding someone is not the same as being close, and how to stop hiding behind your own mind. Anthony Adoré Love as Act, Not Fall https://anthonyadore.com/love-as-act-not-fall/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:05:54 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9922687 A woman pausing at a doorway looks back at a man by a coffee cup, tension easing into tenderness
The will that chooses daily what the heart once seized in a moment.
The will that chooses daily what the heart once seized in a moment.]]> Love as Act, Not Fall The will that chooses daily what the heart once seized in a moment. Anthony Adoré Made For Love, Made For Loss https://anthonyadore.com/made-for-love-made-for-loss/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:03:48 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9915223 A lone figure bent over still dark water at dusk, faint reflection breaking into rings, soft chiaroscuro light
Why did God create Adam and Eve? A raw, Catholic reflection on being made for love you cannot fully hold, and finding God inside that ache.
Why did God create Adam and Eve? A raw, Catholic reflection on being made for love you cannot fully hold, and finding God inside that ache.]]> Made For Love, Made For Loss Why did God create Adam and Eve? A raw, Catholic reflection on being made for love you cannot fully hold, and finding God inside that ache. Anthony Adoré Where Peace Hides When You Control Everything https://anthonyadore.com/peace-locked-heart-control/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:04:09 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9915481 A dim room, a still glass jar of clouded water on a wooden table, one hand resting near it
Looking for true peace but you keep it all locked down? Why the discipline that protects you also starves you, and where rest actually begins.
Looking for true peace but you keep it all locked down? Why the discipline that protects you also starves you, and where rest actually begins.]]> Where Peace Hides When You Control Everything Looking for true peace but you keep it all locked down? Why the discipline that protects you also starves you, and where rest actually begins. Anthony Adoré The Crowd Inside Us https://anthonyadore.com/the-crowd-inside-us/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:04:15 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9922735 Woman drying a glass at a lamplit night sink, lost in reverie as if hearing absent voices
How solitude reveals we are never alone with ourselves
How solitude reveals we are never alone with ourselves]]> The Crowd Inside Us How solitude reveals we are never alone with ourselves Anthony Adoré Carrying the Wound You Never Chose https://anthonyadore.com/carrying-the-wound-you-never-chose/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:07:33 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9915014 A small child's dim sleeping chamber at night, cool low warm light, an unseen presence at the edge
You want to know how to handle childhood trauma. The honest answer is not erasure but endurance—and the strange nearness of God inside the dark.
You want to know how to handle childhood trauma. The honest answer is not erasure but endurance—and the strange nearness of God inside the dark.]]> Carrying the Wound You Never Chose You want to know how to handle childhood trauma. The honest answer is not erasure but endurance—and the strange nearness of God inside the dark. Anthony Adoré When Grief Itself Comes to Grief https://anthonyadore.com/grief-come-to-grief/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:03:59 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9914525 A single steaming mug on a bare kitchen counter at dawn, a second empty mug pushed to the edge
Grief come to grief: when mourning stops moving and turns to stone in you. A raw, honest reflection on carrying the dead and waking to your own end.
Grief come to grief: when mourning stops moving and turns to stone in you. A raw, honest reflection on carrying the dead and waking to your own end.]]> When Grief Itself Comes to Grief Grief come to grief: when mourning stops moving and turns to stone in you. A raw, honest reflection on carrying the dead and waking to your own end. Anthony Adoré When Scripture Becomes a Place to Hide https://anthonyadore.com/scripture-becomes-place-to-hide/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:03:07 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9914739 A man standing alone in a small warm lamplit room, half-turned away from an open chair
Hypocrisy in the church, in Bible verses, in the heart: how a man used holy words to keep love out. A reflection from Confessions to the Empty Chair.
Hypocrisy in the church, in Bible verses, in the heart: how a man used holy words to keep love out. A reflection from Confessions to the Empty Chair.]]> When Scripture Becomes a Place to Hide Hypocrisy in the church, in Bible verses, in the heart: how a man used holy words to keep love out. A reflection from Confessions to the Empty Chair. Anthony Adoré