Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
01537 – Desperately Needing Inspiration
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01527 – Deep Calls to Deep
The deepest things I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering. And out of the deepest waters and hottest fires have come the deepest things that I know about God.
01459 – We Are Not Alone
Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are...
01451 – God’s Loving Claim Upon Us
We are confronted by God's loving claim upon us--the most intense intimacy a human being can experience. To know this intimacy we have only to let go. Instead of relying on our own initiative, where we are in control, we discover that we are participating in what God...
01435 – A Friend Sings Your Song to You
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
01405 – Lover, Not Dictator
The people who know God well--mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God--always meet a lover, not a dictator.
00125 – Love is Of God
When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate...
00093 – Drawing People to Christ
We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.