We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of how to destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God...
Amid the challenges of life, we seek--consciously or unconsciously--to experience that original connection with the Divine in ourselves and the world. God is on our side. God's loving energy courses through us, inspiring adventure and healing wounds. God is out to...
I give myself completely to you, God.Assign me to my place in your creation.Let me suffer for you.Give me the work you would have me do.Give me many tasksOr have me step aside while you call others.Put me forward or humble me.Give me riches or let me live in poverty.I...
Prayers for all who feel loneliness or grief...when we remember those who are no longer with us. I invite you to recall in the darkness of your grief that our Creator loves you so much and that you are promised to always be loved, and never to be alone. This presence...
If you knew how quickly people would forget about you after your death, you will not seek in your life to please anyone but God. (circa 387)
Anna is the very last character in the Christmas Story. Mary and Joseph have left behind the shepherds and the stable animals, stopping in the temple to fulfill their requirements of their faith. Upon arrival, they meet Simeon the Priest who would perform the...
The realm of God is within us and among us and around us...All the wonders you seek, and the inspiration you crave, are right where you are, within your own personal experience. Thin places, holy isles, burning bushes, angelic songs, and magi bearing gifts are...
Matthew writes: “[Herod] sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under.” Jesus is born, but in Flannery O’Connor’s words, “at a devastating price.” No one knows how many children died; the New Testament alone documents the...
God is always waiting to be born. And so it is. The magic of Christmas is the magic of our rebirthing God into the world for the sake of peace and goodwill to all creation. Divine birth is both painful and beautiful, as all births are. But this is our part in the...
People who have come to know the joy of God do not deny the darkness, but they choose not to live in it.