Category: Speaking to the Soul

Jesus invites his followers into a path of aggressive, shrewd nonviolent resistence.

Jesus invites us to look at our hearts, and be disarmed. Whenever we look at another person with lust, we realize that our thoughts are God’s possession. We drag God into our own adultery. Nevertheless, God does not reject or abandon us. God loves us even as we foul God.

“Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?” “Doubtless they are,” spoke Norris, opening his sermon.

There is an old saying that I have ambivalent feelings about: “Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

The real hope, then, is not in something we think we can do, but in God who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

My crippling myth is that if I get a little extra time, and if I work hard and fast enough, I’ll catch up and get it all done.

Thomas Keating describes the false self as three energy centers within us, which motivate us to act to satisfy our ego’s exaggerated needs.