Vulnerability is not a weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.
03782 – Vulnerability and Courage
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02938 – Who Loves You?
[Those who matter] are people who love you not despite of your imperfection and vulnerability, but because of your imperfection and vulnerability.
02406 – Vulnerability Sounds Like Truth
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
01212 – God Loves Us, Period!
When we begin to realize that God loves us with our weakness, with our vulnerability, with our failures, we can begin to accept them as an inevitable part of our human life. We can love others--with their failures--when we stop despising ourselves--because of our...
00960 – Are We More Attentive when Life is Hard?
Perhaps we are more attentive when life is hard. When we are open and vulnerable, the Spirit can more easily lead us forth to fuller expressions of wisdom, compassion, and love—to the heart of our humanity, the imago dei, the image of God.
00959 – We Are All Vulnerable
Being numbered among the “least of these” is a condition, not just in childhood, but at any stage in life when we are out of control, weak, needy, and dependent. In taking a child in his arms, in placing the child at the forefront of his disciples, Jesus made an...
00956 – Suffering Alone Does Not Teach
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
00855 – Participate in Singing
Singing is a spiritual activity best experienced in community. The documented benefits are as significant as those in yoga, a healthy diet, and prayer. Our culture, however, has commodified singing and turned it into a perfected idol that is performed by the few and...
00632 – Feeble Gospel vs. Powerful Gospel
The feeble gospel goes back to Jesus as our model, our example, and is much concerned with moral injunctions. It sees his teaching as a fine set of ideals at which to aim. It may not do much harm but it has no power to change your life: it is a faith built in sand...
00617 – Life is Short; Are You Living it Well?
Jesus refuses to bolster the illusion that we protect ourselves by good and faithful living. …He dismisses that assumption by ignoring [the inquirers’] question. What Jesus does do is recognize [their] vulnerability, their feeling of being small and fragile, which...