I think awe is an exercise, both a doing and a being. It is a spiritual muscle of our humanity that we can only keep from atrophying if we exercise it habitually…Awe is not a lens through which to see the world but our sole path to seeing. Any other lens is not a lens...
It is better to be Christians without saying so than to say so without being so.
It is love that calls us into being,and it is love that calls us home.For God is love, and love is the dance of eternity.
We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything we are wasting our time. But that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be...
You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.
My mission as a Christian is not "to convert the heathen" as we once asserted; it is rather to assist in the task of helping all people "to live fully, to love wastefully, and to be all that they are capable of being."
Our faith was never about aligning with Caesar's earthly power to get what we want. From the beginning, this Way of Jesus was counter-cultural, presenting a radically different way to be in this world based on spiritual power. The way of Caesar is no substitute for...
The intensity and strain that many of us bring to Christmas must suggest to some onlookers that, on the whole, Christians do not seem to have gotten the point of it. Probably few of us have the faith or the nerve to tamper with hallowed Christmas traditions on a large...
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the...
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern. from The...