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...
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...
It is my growing conviction that my life belongs to others just as much as it belongs to myself and that what is experienced as most unique often proves to be most solidly embedded in the common condi...
Isn’t the little child poor, gentle, and pure of heart? Isn’t the little child weeping in response to every little pain? Isn’t the little child the peacemaker hungry and thirsty for uprightness and th...
Is this not in large part due to our inability to face the pain of our loneliness? By running away from our loneliness and by trying to distract ourselves with people and special experiences, we do no...
Ignorance makes us look for acceptance where it cannot be expected, and makes us hope for changes where they cannot be found. Illusion makes us fight for a new world as if we could create and control...
If prayer, understood as an intimate relationship with God, is indeed the basis of all relationships—to ourselves as well as to others.
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 have also learned to catch the darkness early, not to allow sadness to grow into depression or let a sense of being rejected develop into a feeling of abandonment. Even in the renewed and deepened f...
I asked him how he had been able to take such a splendid picture. With a smile he said, Well, I had only to be very patient and very attentive. It was only after a few hours of compliments that the li...
Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life’s hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation.
From beginning to end, fundraising as ministry is grounded in prayer and undertaken in gratitude. Prayer is the radical starting point of fundraising because in prayer we slowly experience a reorienta...
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know that I am moving from fear to love.
Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.
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...
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.
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....