The world is evil only when you become its slave. The world has a lot to offer—just as Egypt did for the children of Jacob—as long as you don’t feel bound to obey it. The great struggle facing you is...
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 problem, however, is that we not only want our freedom but also fear it.
The loud, boisterous noises of the world make us deaf to the soft, gentle, and loving voice of God.
Spiritual reading, therefore, is slow, deliberate, meditative reading in which we allow the words to penetrate our heart and question our spirit.
Real loneliness comes when we have lost all sense of having things in common. When
Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.
Our first task is to dispel this vague, murky feeling of discontent and to look critically at how we are living our lives. This requires honesty, courage, and trust. We must honestly unmask and courag...
Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a single-minded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face o...
Nouwen’s wisdom is a fusion of the psychological and the spiritual.
Not only being occupied but also being preoccupied is highly encouraged by our society. The way in which newspapers, radio, and TV communicate their news to us creates an atmosphere of constant emerge...
More enslaving than our occupations, however, are our preoccupations. To be pre-occupied means to fill our time and place long before we are there. This is worrying in the more specific sense of the w...
Many consumerist economies stay afloat by manipulating the low self-esteem of their consumers and by creating spiritual expectations through material means.
Let’s dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness...
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love.
Jesus' life is an invitation for us to believe, not primarily in him but in the relationship between himself and the God whom he names Father. Furthermore, Jesus comes into the world to communicate to...
Jesus is the obedient one. The center of his life is this obedient relationship with the Father. This may be hard for us to understand because the word obedience has so many negative connotations in o...
Jesus does not speak about a change of activities, a change in contacts, or even a change of pace. He speaks about a change of heart.
It is sad to see how sometimes people suffering from loneliness, often deepened by the lack of affection in their intimate family circle, search for a final solution for their pains and look at a new...