God is always trying to teach us two things: 1) you can do it, 2) you can’t do it. This is the great wave of God’s love that beats on us all our life: pouring in and sucking out. Desolation and …
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Mercy makes no sense without sin. [Mercy] is the spontaneous, creative movement of life-bestowing love that bends down wherever it detects misery. Hence the the word misericordia in Latin, the movement of the ‘heart’ (cor) that is shaken at the …
Continue readingWe say it all the time. We think it all the time. We feel it all the time. But what a deception this statement really is: “I can’t believe I did that.” Regardless of how often we say it to …
Continue readingHere is a ten-thousand-foot view of discipleship. 1) Encounter. Becoming a disciple first and foremost involves meeting the living God – the internal zap of moving to a place of knowing about Him to knowing Him. This is an experience …
Continue readingWe think of fear as an opposite of faith or trust. If I am without trust, and the security it brings, I fear. But how does one have trust? How does one come to believe that someone is trustworthy? This …
Continue readingGuess post by Shawn Meagher Anxiety is a very powerful thing. It can grip us and take hold of us. It says to us that we will fail, we will falter, we are broken, and we are unlovable. And as …
Continue readingIt is easy for an exile to grow weary. Traveling and traversing, walking and waiting, hoping and hungering – all orientation, vision and purpose made threadbare. It is here faith starts all over again. It is here that faith shows …
Continue readingA certain phrase needs to be banished from our minds and our mouths: “Oh, I would never do that!” Opportunities to say this abound when we hear about the mistakes of others: Tiger Woods’s extramarital affairs; Ben Affleck and Jennifer …
Continue readingIntimacy means ‘into me see‘ - with people and with God. Sometimes we’d rather not have it this way, but since when does God’s way make a whole lot of sense to our flabby minds? St. John of the Cross …
Continue readingWe continue what we started last week when we made our first passage down the way of love by coming face-to-face with the personal revolution of the question, “Does anybody love me?” At a certain point, though, to ask oneself the …
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