The Archive

Category: Speaking to the Soul

Love without limits or qualifications

January 19, 2012 No Comments

Only God our Lord can give the soul consolation without a preceding cause. For it is the prerogative of the Creator alone to enter the

Either Progress or Slip Back

January 18, 2012 No Comments

We can practice faith, hope and love. We can produce the fruits of the Spirit. We can live in conscious union with God. In fact, anything else is loss, something wasted that cannot be reclaimed.

So often when I see the grotesque suffering and senseless killing that fills our globe I feel like my prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who is able to save them from death are futile and hopeless. Nothing is changed. People die daily. Injustice abounds. For so many there is no escape; there is no answer.

Psalm 25

January 16, 2012 No Comments

Compassion and love. These are our highest aspirations and values. Compassion and love — the antidote to fear, greed and power

Not chosen

January 15, 2012 No Comments

Thinking about these possibilities can lead each of us back to a time in our own lives when we were not chosen for something we desired.

Floods

January 14, 2012 No Comments

I have to consider where sin, repentance, judgment, and redemption play their parts in the floods of my life and the life of the world around me. Where is God in the story, and where are the plans for the boat?

The Heart

January 13, 2012 No Comments

We are invited to have soft hearts, hearts open to the transforming love of God. And our example is Jesus.

Epiphany: we can’t go home again

January 12, 2012 No Comments

The manifestation of the world’s true King and the one true Light shakes loose our settled convictions and patterns of living. It causes us to forsake the path of least resistance and to enter into new and unsettling relationships and ways of life. Ways of life based not on domination but on brotherhood and sisterhood.

Jealousy & Violence; Blessing & Community

January 11, 2012 1 Comment

Jealousy, prejudice and violence is healed by blessing and community.

Stories

January 10, 2012 No Comments

It is our great myths that speak to the most compelling and mysterious questions. When we speak of Mystery itself, when we speak of the Divine, it is story and dance (liturgy) and prayer that communicates most deeply.