Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
02340 – “Let Us Fall in Love Again”
Let us fall in love againand scatter gold dust all over the world.Let us become a new springand feel the breeze drift in the heaven’s scent.Let us dress the earth in green,and like the sap of a young treelet the grace from within sustain us.Let us carve gems out of...
02339 – Basing Our Life on God
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Human One. Talk about an upside-down universe! I’m not happy when people hate me—and some people do hate me. Jesus is saying that we have to...
02331 – Helping People Want to Change
I’ve never known a person to change his/her mind on social media, or in real life, when someone yelled at them or put them down, regardless of the subject. On the other hand, I have been personally changed by people who I know care about me, listen to me, and love me....
02322 – Christian Mission
My mission as a Christian is not "to convert the heathen" as we once asserted; it is rather to assist in the task of helping all people "to live fully, to love wastefully, and to be all that they are capable of being."
02309 – Every Human Life: Inestimable Value
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
02296 – Wishing Someone JOY
When you wish someone JOY, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness...all the good things.
02294 – Was There a Moment?
Was there a moment, known only to God, when all the stars held their breath, when the galaxies paused in their dance for a fraction of a second, and the Word, who had called it all into being, went with all his love into the womb of a young girl, and the universe...
02293 – All Are Welcome; We All Belong
We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red,...
02289 – How Our Maturity will be Judged
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.