I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but, in...
God loves us before any human person can show love to us. He loves us with a first love, an unlimited, unconditional love, wants us to be his beloved children, and tells us to become as loving as hims...
God looks at his people as children of a family who are happy that those who have done only a little bit are as much loved as those who accomplish much.
Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others.
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know that I am moving from fear to love.
Don’t we often look at the many events of our lives as big or small interruptions, interrupting many of our plans, projects and life schemes? Don’t we feel an inner protest when a student interrupts o...
Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people’s response to your experience of ab...
Dear God,I am so afraid to open my clenched fists!Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to?Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands?Please help me to gradually open my handsa...
Community thus is obedience practiced together. The question is not simply, Where does God lead me as an individual person who tries to do his will? More basic and more significant is the question, Wh...
Community has little to do with mutual compatibility. Similarities in educational background, psychological make-up, or social status can bring us together, but they can never be the basis for communi...
Christian leadership is a dead-end street when nothing new is expected, when everything sounds familiar and when ministry has regressed to the level of routine.
Christian leaders are called to help others affirm this great news, and to make visible in daily events the fact that behind the dirty curtain of our painful symptoms there is something great to be se...
Christ invites us to remain in touch with the many sufferings of every day and to taste the beginning of hope and new life right there, where we live amid our hurts and pains and brokenness.
By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.
But what a painful difference between the two! The father bends over his returning son. The elder son stands stiffly erect, a posture accentuated by the long staff reaching from his hand to the floor....
But Karl Menninger did not accept any of these answers as the right one. His answer was diagnosis. The first and most important task of any healer is making the right diagnosis. Without an accurate di...
Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
When two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.
Everyone shares the handicap of mortality. Our individual physical, emotional, and spiritual failures are but symptoms of this disease.