Thank God, God is more ready to forgive than to punish. Thank God, Jesus made it quite clear that he had come to be with and to help those in need. “Those who are well do not need a physician,” he said, “but those who are ill.” Jesus said those are the ones he had...
00435 – God Laughs & Weeps with Us
The story of Jesus enables me to envision God as One who genuinely cares for each and all of us. In Jesus, God confronts the Darkness face to face, Incarnate, for our sake. Jesus is Light to the gentle face of God. The story of Jesus says that God laughs with us in...
00271 – Paralyzing Fear of God: Tragedy
It dawned on me that even my best theological and spiritual formation had not been able to completely free me from a Father God who remained somewhat threatening and somewhat fearsome. All I had learned about the Father’s love had not fully enabled me to let go of an...
00160 – Loving Students
Students who are loved at home come to school to learn, and students who aren’t, come to school to be loved.
00151 – We’re Loved!
A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we’re loved.
00149 – Three Truths of Our Existence
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
00146 – Being Heard, Being Loved
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.