Often we are preoccupied with the question How can we be witnesses in the Name of Jesus? What are we supposed to say or do to make people accept the love that God offers them? These questions are expr...
If it is true that we not only are the Beloved, but also have to become the Beloved; if it is true that we not only are children of God, but also have to become children of God; if it is true that we...
I can only be healed from above, from where God reaches down. What is impossible for me is possible for God. With God, everything is possible.
I am less likely to deny my suffering when I learn how God uses it to mold me and draw me closer to him. I will be less likely to see my pains as interruptions to my plans and more able to see them as...
Holding the cup of life means looking critically at what we are living. This requires great courage, because when we start looking, we might be terrified by what we see. Questions may arise that we do...
Frequently prison makes us think about freedom, hunger helps us to appreciate food, and war gives us words for peace. Not seldom are our visions of the future born out of the sufferings of the present...
Exhaustion, burnout, and depression are not signs that you are doing God’s will. God is gentle and loving. God desires to give you a deep sense of safety in God’s love. Once you have allowed yourself...
Dare to lose your life and you will find it.
Certainly in a period of history in which we have become so acutely aware of our alienation in its different manifestations, it has become difficult to unmask the illusion that the final solution for...
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 this leaves us with a very difficult question. Is there a way to move from our worry-filled life to the life of the Spirit? Must we simply wait passively until the Spirit comes along and blows awa...
Both were lost children. Judas, no longer able to hold on to the truth that he remained God’s child, hung himself. In terms of the prodigal son, he sold the sword of his sonship. Peter, in the midst o...
Becoming like the heavenly Father is not just one important aspect of Jesus’ teaching, it is the very heart of his message.
As Father, the only authority he claims for himself is the authority of compassion.
Action with and for those who suffer is the concrete expression of the compassionate life and the final criterion of being a Christian.
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.
All the good things our world has to offer are yours to enjoy. But you can enjoy them truly only when you can acknowledge them as affirmations of the truth that you are the Beloved of God.
Your main question should always be whether something is lived with or without God. You have your own inner knowledge to answer that question. Every time you do something that comes from your needs fo...
Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: Who can take away suffe...
Whether in solitude or community, whether alone or with others, we are called to live obedient lives, that is, lives of unceasing prayer — unceasing not because of the many prayers we say but because...