May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears.
03611 – Make Good Choices!
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03570 – A Beautiful Mosaic
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
02596 – Self-Denial in the New Testament
The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself. We are told to deny ourselves and to take up our crosses in order that we may follow Christ; and nearly every description of what we shall ultimately find if we do so...
02405 – Our Mission: At the Gates of Hope
Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of Hope — not the prudent gates of Optimism, which are somewhat narrower; nor the stalwart, boring gates of Common Sense; nor the strident gates of Self-Righteousness, which creak on shrill and angry hinges (people cannot...
02376 – Choose to Offer True Hope
Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world.
02356 – There’s Always Hope
As I was lying on a gurney in pre-op awaiting knee replacement surgery three days before Christmas, before the “happy drugs” were administered, I noticed a painting on the wall beside the gurney. It was rather nondescript, a field of blue flowers in a garden of rocks...
02328 – What Do You Hope For?
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
02309 – Every Human Life: Inestimable Value
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
02280 – Candles of Advent
I will light candles this Christmas,Candles of joy despite all the sadness,Candles of hope where despair keeps watch,Candles of courage for fears ever present,Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days,Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens,Candles of love to inspire...
02220 – Waiting in Hope
Waiting in hope is an active spiritual practice. It requires a fundamental trust in God's faithfulness and the humility to allow the mystery of God's work to unfold over time.