People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
01567 – Avoidance is the Goal
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01549 – Avoid Judging Others
No matter how compelling the temptation, no matter who else is doing it, no matter how frustrated you feel, avoid judging others. Pronouncing judgment on another person's life is less accurate than trying to call balls and strikes from the seats high atop the...
01347 – Letting Suffering Teach Us
Many of us are tempted to think that if we suffer, the only important thing is to be relieved of our pain. We want to flee it at all costs. But when we learn to move through suffering, rather than to avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it...
00819 – Jesus and “the Other”
Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarnates into the other, joins the other in solidarity, protects the other, listens to the other, serves the other, even...
00334 – Prepare the Way of the Lord!
He who speaks to us in Advent…knows the wilderness into which we have wandered, and the wildness of the world we have on our hands. It is precisely there we are to prepare the way of the Lord. Into the desert of this weary world we are thrust to transform and make it...
00158 – Never Look the Other Way
Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
00128 – Pain and Resurrection
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. Creation has a pattern of wisdom; and we dare not shield ourselves from it, or we literally will lose our soul. We can obey commandments, believe doctrines, and attend church services all our lives and still...