Category: Speaking to the Soul

“There is much to notice even on the darkest and coldest days. If only I open my eyes. If only I see the beauty in interruptions and the unplanned.” 

“But it is God’s will that we have free will, that we be yoked to our flawed selves as we are yoked to divine grace and love.”

Jesus teaches from a boat? That must have been awkward. And Peter’s response to the fish seems a little over the top. I fish occasionally and if someone gave me a tip that resulted in a good catch, I don’t think I’d make the imaginative leap to believing they were of divine provenance.

“For the survivors, confronting memories that have haunted them for years, gave them a chance to show their children and grandchildren part of their history in a way that would help them to understand where their family members had been and what they had experienced.”

“The outsiders bring other traditions and life experience with them, and yet still choose to bind themselves to this particular God and the way of life that entails.”

“He will conquer death by suffering it all the way through to the end and beyond.  We can do this also… ‘Take up your cross,’ he says, ‘and follow me.'”

“I feel myself relax as I listen to the voices. I know singing is good for you, I know community is good for you, but in that moment of voices rising as women, I feel more powerfully this goodness.”

“The big question is did Jesus know his role in Salvation history from his Incarnate birth, or did he also have to pray, discern, struggle as do the rest of us, sharing his human experience with us, as we struggle trying to hear the Holy Spirit?”

“That short conversation flipped a switch for me and I suddenly knew that when you have love in your life it builds up reserves which allow you to invest, even to make risky investments, because you don’t need the return.”