Author: Lowell Grisham

I find myself often uncertain about what I believe. I find I have much doubt about many things.

But I find that I can trust.

The present moment invariably consists principally in something to be done or something to be put up with or something to be enjoyed. Attending wholeheartedly to whichever of these it the case is what is meant by responding to God and doing his will

Have low expectations and high hopes.

Can anybody say Americans are 32 times as mentally ill and dangerously deranged as the other Western democracies?

For those who get to take another day of holiday (holy-day) because of Christmas, it is good to remember those who can’t.

At this feast of the nativity

let each person wreathe the door of his heart

so that the Holy Spirit may delight in that door,

enter in and take up residence there;

then by the spirit we will be made holy.

Yet Mary holds her finger out, and a divine hand closes on it. The maker of the world is born a begging child; he begs for milk, and does not know that it is milk for which he begs.

“From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven is violently attacked as violent people seize it.”

Are people most effectively motivated by reward and punishment, or by encouragement and love?

To be absorbed into scripture is to nurture a “both/and” perspective… Great Christian doctrines are “both/and.” Jesus is both fully human and fully divine. God is both One and Three. Great heresies are created by relieving the “both/and” tension with an “either/or” decision.