When we think about the people who have given us hope and have increased the strength of our soul, we might discover that they were not the advice givers, warners or moralists, but the few who were ab...
When we see ourselves in a relationship of love with God, there is always something of a lover's dilemma, a struggle to give and receive, to trust and obey the call.
When we are alone with God, the Spirit prays in us. The challenge is to develop a simple discipline or spiritual practice to embrace some empty time and empty space every day.
When our friend says, If my friends found out how I really feel, if I would show my real self, then they would no longer love me but hate me — he speaks about a real possibility. It is very risky to b...
Whatever he had lost, be it his money, his friends, his reputation, his self-respect, his inner joy and peace—one or all—he still remained his father’s child. And so he says to himself: How many of my...
We often are very, very busy, and usually very tired as a result, but we should ask ourselves how much of our reading and talking, visiting and lobbying, lecturing and writing, is more part of an impu...
We all are children and parents, students and teachers, healers and in need of care.
Together, Yet Not Too NearWhen we try to shake off our loneliness by creating a milieu without limiting boundaries, we may become entangled in a stagnating closeness.
To serve means to minister, to love and care for others, and to recognize in them the heart of God. A true disciple of Jesus will always go to where people are feeling weak, broken, sick, in pain, poo...
To love and work for the glory of God cannot remain an idea about which we think once in a while. It must become an interior, unceasing doxology.
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneli...
To become like the Father whose only authority is compassion, I have to shed countless tears and so prepare my heart to receive anyone, whatever their journey has been, and forgive them from that hear...
Thus, discipline is the creation of boundaries that keep time and space open for God. Solitude requires discipline, worship requires discipline, caring for others requires discipline. They all ask us...
There is great pain and suffering in the world. But the pain hardest to bear is your own.
The story of the prodigal son is the story of a God who goes searching for me and who doesn’t rest until he has found me.
The more I reflect on the elder son in me, the more I realize how deeply rooted this form of lostness really is and how hard it is to return home from there. Returning home from a lustful escapade see...
The loud, boisterous noises of the world make us deaf to the soft, gentle, and loving voice of God.
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. Our lives are filled with examples which tell us that leadership asks for unders...
The core of all prayer is indeed listening, obediently standing in the presence of God.