Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will." from Secrets in the Dark
03850 – Doing God’s Will
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03672 – Only by Dying…
IF DEATH WAS TO be truly defeated, it was only by dying himself that Jesus believed he could defeat it. If he was to reach the hearts of men, it was only by suffering his own heart to be broken on their behalf that he believed he could reach them. To heal the sick and...
03442 – Beauty is as Close as Breathing
May we have eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand that beauty is as close as breathing and is crying out to be born within ourselves and in the world.
03439 – Keeping Hope Alive
What keeps the wild hope of Christmas alive every year...is the haunting dream that the child who was born that day may yet be born again even in us and our own snowbound, snowblind longing for him.
03389 – The Moment Before it Happens
In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is...
03335 – One Earthly Life is All We Get
One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.
03168 – God Speaking
If God speaks to us at all...then I think that he speaks to us largely through what happens to us. from Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation----------------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: If God speaks to us at all...then I think that God...
03133 – Miracles & Faith in God
Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles, than miracles from faith in God.
03129 – It’s a Gift!
The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on...
03120 – Lost vs. Found
What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.