It came home to me that the most profound blessings we will ever know are those that meet us in the place of our deepest loss and inspire us to choose to live again.
03143 – Most Profound Blessings
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03089 – Saddest and Hardest
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
03055 – Truth Requires Change
You can give a person knowledge, but you can't make them think. Some people want to remain fools, only because the truth requires change.
02909 – Knowledge
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: Knowledge makes a person unfit to be a slave.
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...
02651 – Never Look Away!
My mom taught us never to look away from people's pain. The lesson was simple: Don't look away. Don't look down.Don't pretend not to see hurt.Look people in the eye.Even when their pain is overwhelming. And when you are in pain, find the people who can look you in the...
02629 – Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
In A.D. 500, Augustine wrote: "How can you draw close to God when you are far from your own self?" In 1530, John Calvin wrote: "Our wisdom . . . consists almost entirely of two parts: knowledge of God and of ourselves." And Teresa of Avila wisely wrote: "Almost all...
02159 – Love Neighbor, Know Neighbor
It's nearly impossible to love our neighbors if we don't know our neighbors. And herein lies the tension of our times: We live in such a connected world with such limited or nonexistent connections. Relationships matter. Stories matter.
02079 – The Ecstacy of True Hope
[W]e can never know the ecstasy of true hope without attending to the tragic realities of the poor and forgotten. from The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement
02075 – Knowing What Love Means
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.