“A ritual of prayer can be as simple as pausing for a moment to be full present, or it can be a habit of giving thanks for the little joys of life. Like a scarf it can be warming and comforting, and can help take up the strain of daily life.”
“God said, in essence, ‘you can run, but you cannot hide.’ And so Moses became an emissary to Pharaoh. And he was finally able to lead his people out of their captivity.”
“The hands of God’s love never stop trying to ease us, to soothe us, to work with us and within us to help shape us into our best selves.”
“My days in Lent do look different in this season of my life. But they are no less faithful.”
“That turning, repentance, metanoia has a cost, the cost of recognizing our human sin, of taking up our Cross daily, not only in suffering from injustice and violence, but in knowing in ourselves our need for Christ’s healing grace, his showing us the way to be more loving, more patient, more forgiving, as he was and is.”
“Jesus was not trying to teach math, although the disciples do get credit for remembering how many baskets of leftovers came at each feeding. They remembered the facts but not necessarily the lesson behind them. A literal reading the Bible can give us what we believe are the facts, but unless we look deeper, we often miss the lessons Jesus wanted us to learn…”
“One of the things that God had intended from the outset was that humankind would be close to God, to cling, to be not just servants of God but intimate companions.”
“Perhaps the real teaching point from his life is that he discovered a way to move out of his shell into a new reality, through his faith. His faith inspired his poetry, and his poetry reflects the journey of a man who was continually seeking to understand Scripture and church teaching through the inner workings of his instinctual connection with the beauty of nature.”
“In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus forecasts that many of his listeners will die in their sins, for they are not hearing the “I Am” of his presence among us. They are not seeing in him the incarnation of God. They will look for him and not be able to find him.”
“What does God do with all them prayers? Whacky? Goofy? Does he think of us, too much smokin’ you-know-what?”