What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
00296 – What Lies Within
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00274 – Seek Peace
How are we to experience peace in a world filled with war and destruction, hurricanes and greed? …Prayers are offered for peace and Nobel prizes are awarded for it. But more frequently, peace seems as distant as the moon… The world whizzes by at breakneck speed as its...
00269 – Soul Hunger
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least...
00191 – Stuff In, Stuff Out
I spent the first 2/3 of my life acquiring stuff that doesn’t matter only so that I can spend my last 1/3 getting rid of it. What a stupid game of consumerism we Americans play.
00123 – Dying Before You Die
What is the wisdom that matters now? For me, it’s the Paschal Mystery [the passion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus the Christ]. . . . Simply, the one who would save his life or her life will lose it and the one who’s willing to lose it, will save it. In...
00084 – Christ’s Living Presence
But the fact of the matter is that in a way it hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever...