I'm trying to learn (or re-learn) that, in the end, what matters most is not my ability to "produce" but my ability to love.
03159 – What Matters Most
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02763 – Standing in the Tragic Gap
To live in this world, we must learn how to stand in the tragic gap, the gap between what is and what could be, with faith and hope.
02436 – Inner Truth: A Plumb Line
I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life--about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.
02208 – Community Means Connectedness
Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
01834 – Self-Care Isn’t Selfish
Self-care is never a selfish act--it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.
01462 – Not “Fixing Things” is Hard
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to 'fix' it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.
01445 – Make a Difference where We Live
Our real freedom comes from being aware that we don't have to save the world, merely make a difference in the place where we live.
01361 – Embrace Brokenness
Wholeness does not mean perfection; it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.
01280 – God’s Spirit is Dangerous, Not Safe
In the midst of depression I once asked my spiritual director how I could be feeling such despair when not long before the depression hit I had been feeling so close to God? "Simple," she said. "The closer you get to light the closer you get to darkness." The deepest...
01257 – Much of Life is Pure Gift
If we were to accept large areas of life as pure gift, we would be forced to acknowledge that we are not in control. Were we to live as recipients rather than makers, we might feel dependent and diminished, like clients of some cosmic welfare system that demeans our...