If you listen longer than most people listen, you’ll hear things most people never hear. from Didn't See It Coming
03546 – Listen Longer!
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03526 – Loving Your Enemies
Loving your enemies has the deep spiritual benefit of enabling us to set our own course in life rather than constantly being in a posture of angry response to what other people do. There is freedom along this route, but it requires considerable internal strength and...
03513 – Live the Life You Want to Live
People may call what happens at midlife "a crisis," but it's not. It's an unraveling--a time when you need a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're "supposed to live."
03504 – How Do You Treat People?
No matter how educated, talented, rich, or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all.
03482 – Giving Connects Two People
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
03475 – Once a Child, Always a Child
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed...
03474 – Let It Be
When people say, "Let it go," what they really mean is "Get over it," and that's not a helpful thing to say. It's not a matter of letting go--you would if you could. Instead of "Let it go," we should probably say, "Let it be"; this recognizes that the mind won't let...
03457 – Neighbors to be Loved
When you think of faith as a war to be won, you will see people as enemies to be conquered. When you think of faith as a world to be explored, you will see people as neighbors to be loved.
03432 – Epiphany of Grace
Matthew writes: “[Herod] sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under.” Jesus is born, but in Flannery O’Connor’s words, “at a devastating price.” No one knows how many children died; the New Testament alone documents the...
03367 – Church Should Be a Place Where…
The church should be a place where wounded people can come, and be made well again, not with flashy miracles, but by finding a safe place where they can unbandage and bare their wounds in a community of love and forgiveness. from Painting with Ashes: When Your...