Our spiritual makeup is as varied as our physical. Each person has distinct gifts. Our diversity is infinite. “The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor” (1...
Run! Every great movie has a chase scene. Think through your favorite film . . . can you identify some kind of pursuit? Is it a car chase on a multi-lane freeway? An around-the-globe tracking of a rogue agent? A...
What is a monastery?A monastery is not so much a place set apart for monks and nuns as it is a place set apart, period. It is also a place to learn the value of powerlessness and a place to...
Anxiety about the future The future is in God’s hands, not yours. God will rule it according to your need. But if you seek to forecast it in your own wisdom, you will gain nothing but anxiety and anticipation of...
. . . my strength is made perfect in weakness.—II Corinthians 12:9 My dear child, calm yourself at My breast. Let your faint knowledge of Me give you strength for your needs. I am enough—sufficient for any circumstance you are...
In chapter 41 of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, Julian writes that prayer is ‘the deliberate and persevering action of the soul.’That is to say, in our partially redeemed state in which the drawing of the spirit has to compete...
Blossoms are more beautiful, petals prettier, when they let the light shine through. The light comes streaming from behind them, and they cannot see it, or know it is there, but they are sure it is not at them alone...
Joy, like love, is intangible. You cannot touch joy, but you can similarly feel its “sweetness that pours into everything,” as Helen Keller said. Joy, like love, is something experienced, and joy is inextricably linked with love. Joy, like love,...
Embrace your circumstances as the soil for your uniquely wonderful future. Accept the good and the bad of your life, and then realize that these circumstances place opportunities before you that are unique to you. There’s only one you. Your...
