02370 – Blessing of the Magi

There is no reversingthis road.The path that bore you heregoes in one direction only,every step drawing youdown a wayby which you will notreturn.You thought arrivalwas everything,that your entire journeyended with kneelingin the placeyou had spent allto find.When you...

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01829 – Life is a Process

This life, therefore, is not righteousness but growth in righteousness: not health, but healing; not being, but becoming; not rest, but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it. The process is not yet finished, but it is continuing. This...

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01559 – Two Roads Diverged…

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was...

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01250 – Beauty: A Door to God

I ask myself whether we are using sufficiently one of the doors that leads to God—the door named Beauty… One can find God through the door of truth, for truth also attracts us. But many of our contemporaries are little Pilates who ask: “What is truth?” and remain...

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00347 – Trying and Failing

We cannot discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say, there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that, if we try harder next time, we shall succeed in being completely...

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00314 – Advent Journey

God has built a highway for the people. This is such a safe and straight road that no one can become lost. This road of faith is what God gives to the people. Along it they shall travel to the promised land. God gives the people not only natural sustenance, like water...

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