This life will go by fast. …So take this challenge that is life and do it now...love more, forgive more, embrace more, love more intensely and leave the rest in God's hands.
00078 – Let Go & Let God
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00077 – God’s Presence in Everyone?
It seems difficult for us to distinguish between our “personal” relationship with God and the rampant individualism we practice in our politics. Do we dare keep voting according to our pocketbooks and private morality? Yes, we are God’s beloved, but so is everyone...
00058 – Broken vs. Broken-Open
You can be broken, or you can be broken-open! People who are broken turn angry and bitter. People who are broken-open are weavers of hope and love and life.
00057 – Of What Use is Religion?
If worship isn’t leading to the fire, if adoration isn’t leading to love, if the liturgy isn’t leading to a clearer perception of reality, if God isn’t leading to life, of what use is religion except to create more division, more fanaticism, more antagonism?
00055 – Jesus’ Temptation, My Temptation
Temptation at its deepest level has nothing to do with key lime pie or chocolate fudge. Jesus' temptation, like ours, is, “What am I going to do with the rest of my life?”
00050 – God is Eminently Reliable
The basic premise of biblical trust is the conviction that God wants us to grow, to unfold, and to experience fullness of life. However, this kind of trust is acquired only gradually and most often through a series of crises and trials. Through the indescribable...
00040 – Let Christians Not Quibble
And all hands are needed to save this sinking ship. Let Christians not quibble about commitments to Christ. Let all those who want to keep civilization civilized—put quality into culture, humanity into business life, life into the millions who are now drifting—let...
00031 – Gospel of the Kingdom Transforms Shame
Shame seems most widespread and deepest among the very people who take rightness and goodness most seriously. It is a dimension of condemnation that reaches into the deepest levels of our souls. In shame we are self-condemned for being the person we are. It touches...
00030 – Christmas Gift of Grace
Each year, as winter takes hold and covers our days with its silent wonder, we are called to reflection. As the shadows grow longer and the nights deepen, we gather in our chapels of faith seeking [comfort and assurance from God]. We light our candles…we sing our...
00026 – Vocation comes from Listening
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about—quite apart from what I would like it to be about—or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest...