For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction...
Ordinary love, anonymous and unnoticed as it is, is the substance of peace on earth, the currency of God's grace in our daily life. from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
The saints whose stories line the pages of Scripture could be both heroic and weak... They were all too human and subject to the ebb and flow of faith in daily life just as we are. from Driven
The principle of neighborly love encapsulates the balance between time and eternity which is vital to the practice of true hope. Since love is not, for an ideal human being, living in a state of abstract perfection but rather for someone in particular, someone...