The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
04151 – Mystery of Human Existence
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03736 – True Friends
True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
03731 – Meaning vs. Distraction
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
03617 – The Bridge from God to Us
But the bridge that crosses the great gulf runs from God to us, never from us to God. We do not travel through the cross to find God; instead, God has traveled through the cross to find us. The significance of this distinction is great. from Yearning: Living Between...
03512 – Tame God vs. Wild God
I, too, am tired of the tame God and boxed-in-Christ, distorted by control-seeking humans who use religion to maintain the status quo. I'm yearning for a wild God that compels me to full participation in this miraculous dance of life, deepening the meaning in a core...
03459 – New Year, War, and Peace
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.---------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a...
03126 – Led by the Holy Spirit?
The moment we Christians feel justified abandoning love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control for the sake of preserving and enforcing our own power is the moment we find we are being led by something other than the...
02827 – Knowing God
God approaches our minds by receding from them. We can never fully know Him if we think of Him as an object of capture, to be fenced in by our own ideas. We know Him better after our minds have let Him go. The Lord travels in all directions at once. The Lord arrives...
02825 – Finding a Common Purpose
We tend to think of solidarity as unity or agreement on goals within a certain class or group, but in its most astonishing form solidarity reaches across divides to find a common purpose. from Moral Leadership for a Divided Age
02582 – Ash Wednesday
If our lives were a long piece of fabric with our baptism on one end and our funeral on another, and we don't know the distance between the two, then Ash Wednesday is a time when that fabric is pinched in the middle and the ends are held up so that our baptism in the...