In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive our community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
03074 – Concealing Our Wounds
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02590 – The Intention of Prayer, Spirituality, & Love
Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in you where you have never been wounded...where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility in you. The intention of prayer and spirituality and love is now and...
01852 – Your Frame of Vision
There is a beautiful complexity of growth within the human soul. In order to glimpse this, it is helpful to visualize the mind as a tower of windows. Sadly, many people remain trapped at the one window, looking out every day at the same scene in the same way. Real...
01492 – Lives Built on Frenzy & Compulsive Busyness
One of the most serious dangers confronting those who minister in the city is that their lives come to be built on frenzy and compulsive busyness. This usually leads to a lack of focus, a tendency to accumulate more and more things, a collapse of reflection, and the...
01427 – The “Money God” is Idolatry
By inner attitude and outward action, we must defile money's sacred character. Money is too high on our list of values. As Thomas Merton observed, "The true 'law' of our day is the law of wealth and material power." For Christians, this giving of high priority to...
00100 – Roots and Fruits
The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inner journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant.