God wants to get PERSONAL with us. Today’s scripture gives us several stories where Godengages with Abraham, Martha, and Mary in much the same way he desires to journey witheach of us. Let’s explore THESE interactions and a story about a deacon’s journey into ministryand ask ourselves, how is God actively engaging each of US…
The house is full of people; Jesus and his disciples are there; Mary, the young woman, sitting at her friend’s feet with the disciples around; Martha, the generous one, is in her kitchen, stoking the fire, checking the pots and pans, getting up, passing and going over before the group to set the table, bustling…
Jesus loves sharing how God can be surprisingly loving in the least expected details of everyday life; a crowd has followed them to the mountain, where God, in Jesus, the new Moses, will reveal new laws and love rules. The disciples suggested sending the crowd away; it was evening, and they were far from town.…
Trinity: one God in three persons. Dogma I do not understand, yet it is liberating because it assures me that God is not in Himself solitude; that the ocean of His essence vibrates with an infinite movement of love. God embodies reciprocity, exchange, self-overcoming, encounter, and embrace. God’s nature is communion. The dogma of the…
Happy Pentecost Sunday! A day when we remember how the early Christians were gathered in one place, as we are today, and experienced the pouring out of the Holy Spirit. Let’s take a deep dive into the waters of the Holy Spirit and discover where it fits into our spiritual journey. This is a quote…
The Holy Spirit, the mysterious heart of the world, the wind over the depths, the Love in all Love, is God at large; a wind that brings spring where it wills, that does not let the dust sleep, that blows over every old Jerusalem. God in humble freedom, who bears no statistics, who in life…
In our Christian journey, loving the Lord is essential for us to hear His voice and follow His Word, uniting our desires and willpower. How does one love the Lord Jesus? Spiritual love sprouts through surrender and openness as a longing, allowing oneself to be loved. God is not earned; He is embraced, not through…
When one of our kids struggled a little in elementary school, she told us she did better when she was assigned as seat in the front of the class. It turns out, she needed glasses, but she didn’t know that other kids saw the world more clearly than her. When she got her first pair,…
My sheep listen to my voice—not commanding to execute, but a loving voice to rouse. Listening is the hospitality of Life. To do this, you must “open the ear of your heart,” according to the Rule of St Benedict. Our loved one’s voice touches the heart’s senses long before words take shape; it surrounds and…
The disciples, locked away in fear of the authorities, found themselves in an upper room shrouded in darkness that hardly resembled a home. The absence of the loving Jesus sacrificed in Calvary left a void, leaving only fear and shame as life seemed to fade away. Though it’s spring outside, they are trapped in a…