Love and Action/Will
"Love is a choice, a choice we must go on making for the rest of our lives. To love is not to act on instinct but to set before ourselves...
Opposition
“If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?’ (Blaise Pascal) Our...
Silence and Prayer
“…silence is the preferred sound of the soul. The noise of the mind is the chatter of distraction. Such a description is frustrating to...
Openness
"Today let me stop and wonder at what God is showing me in my life, rather than fight to attain control of the situations and people He...
Mess
“The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives. Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the...
Our Own Good
“Nothing that happens to us escapes God’s notice and care; not a tear falls to the ground that He does not remember. When we suffer, it...
Loneliness and Isolation (Sunday, October 15, 2017)
“Social media—from Facebook to Twitter—have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research...
Prayer and Distress
“Prayer is still possible when God seems to be absent, and we can hope in God in the face of present affliction because faith enables the...
Preach
“…but He said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent”…Christ’s...
Prejudice
“ ‘Prejudice’ is a word that comes from two words: ‘pre’ or before and ‘judice’ or to judge. So when we are prejudging against each...
