Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
2430 – Cultivating Deep Friendships
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02379 – The Prodigal was Always a Son
The prodigal stayed away from his Father's house and endured pigpen poverty because he feared his actions had changed his identity from son to slave, only to return and find his fears had no basis in reality. Fear keeps us in a slave mentality and robs us of our very...
02330 – Longing to be Loved
Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.
02272 – Image of God: Santa?
Sadly, most people’s image of God is jolly Santa, making a list and checking it twice, finding out who’s naughty or nice. It’s certainly not this humble, helpless baby who has come to love us in ways that we’re not ready to be loved.
02252 – Getting Ready for Jesus
When we read about John the Baptist during Advent, we sometimes mistakenly see him as the wild one preparing the way for the mild one, when what I think he may be actually saying is "get ready for one who is even wilder than I am--wilder for love, wilder for justice,...
02185 – Faith and Love
Faith is a word that describes the direction our feet start moving when we find that we are loved.
02181 – Love vs. Shame
I am convinced that more people will be loved into the family of God than shamed into the family of God. And it's hard to love people if we keep throwing them out of our tent....Most people need a friend more than they need a prophet.
02042 – Becoming Real
Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand....
01919 – Only One Happiness
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
01901 – Moving into Non-Dual Thinking
Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.