Your life and my life are, each of them, one of a kind. No one has lived your life or my life before, and no one will ever live them again. Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence—priceless and irreplaceable. Being chosen is the basis for being...
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love. When I die love continues to be active, and from full communion with God, I am present by love to those I leave behind. from Finding My Way Home
There are many suicides—not because people have too little money or suffer disappointments in love—but because they lost the meaning of life and see themselves confronted by a black wall.
Restless people who seek signs and wonders are often unable to accept the commonplace as a gift that is not so commonplace. The genuinely miraculous character of life itself, the web of loving relationships that are a part of that life, and the gift of human...
I think that’s one reason why you are here this morning. You are looking for answers to life’s big questions, searching for reasons why, groping for some discernible pattern in the confusion. We’ve been bombarded with information, facts, and figures. We don’t need any...
The context for much of what Jesus said about the family was his vision of the coming crisis of God’s reign which would turn ordinary life on its head. He perceived the coming of the kingdom to be a revolutionary event; the family could no longer provide true security...
A story from the Buddhist tradition, probably timeless but in its most recent versions set during the Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet, makes this point very clear. A soldier bursts into a monastery cell and thrusts his rifle into the belly of a meditating monk....
It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another’s city? How do you...
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. I’ve felt that many times. My hope for all of us is that “the miles we go before we sleep” will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring—delight, sadness,...
Until you become thankful, you will never find joy. Being thankful is not telling God you appreciate the fact that your life is not in shambles. If that is the basis of your gratitude you are on slippery ground. Every day of your life you face the possibility that a...