Order and Disorder
“Have you seen how, with creation, when God wished to make creation, with how much harmony and godly wisdom everything was put together,...
Contentment
“From a lack of contentment comes death…What we see in the Garden is paradise. A place of intimate and immediate communion with God,...
Participation
“…our modern culture believes that relationships with other people are merely psychological phenomena – they are all in our head. There...
Rebellion
“That first human sin was about turning away from God. He had explicitly told Adam and Eve not to eat of that tree, and yet they did it...
Wisdom (2)
“… the acquisition of wisdom is always conditional, for God makes wisdom available only when two major “ifs” apply to us: “if [we] call...
Attachments
" 'In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all of own possessions' (Luke 10:33). The...
Ascension
“Christ's Ascension is His enthronement in the fullness of divine authority and glory. Icons of the Ascension represent Christ in such a...
Paradise
“God places man in a garden of paradise “to tend and keep it” (Genesis 2:15), honoring him with the gift of free will…“He desired that...
Character and Choices
“All of life’s choices have consequences, consequences for ourselves and consequences for the world around us. And when we fall into the...
Sacred Space
“The narrative of Creation is the story of God creating a sacred space in which to dwell with His creation, humanity…What we see in...
