In spiritual direction, we move slowly, listening beneath the surface, noticing what stirs, trusting that God is already at work in the places that feel most tender or tangled.
Continue reading “Living in the Truth”Living in the Truth
Tag: Prayer
The Grace of Remembering
One of the most honest truths about the spiritual life is this: we forget.
Not because we are ungrateful, but because the human heart is easily scattered. We drift from the One who sustains us, not out of rebellion, but out of distraction. And yet, across the ages, God’s gentle refrain remains the same: Remember.
Healed, Whole, and Holy
Through Christ, we are already healed. Already whole and holy. Not someday. Not when we finally get our lives in order. Not when we feel worthy. This is the quiet miracle of grace: Christ’s healing reaches us before we even know how to ask for it.
Continue reading “Healed, Whole, and Holy”Freedom That Lives Beyond Borders
On this 250th anniversary of Independence Day in the United States, we give thanks for the gifts of civic freedom, voices that can speak, communities that can gather, people who can shape their common life. Yet as Christians, we know that the deepest freedom does not come from any nation, constitution, or historical moment. True freedom lives beyond the boundaries of a country. It is the freedom God offers to every human heart, in every land, in every age.
Continue reading “Freedom That Lives Beyond Borders”The Deep End of Life
Resiliency is not the hardening of the heart but the deepening of it. It is the quiet courage to move through our pain rather than trying to go around it. The only way out of suffering is through it—through the questions, through the ache, through the places where we feel stretched beyond what we can bear. And yet, as we walk this path, something in us expands. We become more spacious, more grounded, more able to live in hope.
Continue reading “The Deep End of Life”No Other God
There is a quiet power in the simple declaration: there is no other God. Not a threat, not a competition, just a truth that steadies the heart. There is no other source of the love that made you. No other well that can satisfy your thirst. No other presence that knows you so completely and still calls you beloved.
Continue reading “No Other God”When Thoughts Turn to Prayers
There are moments when the mind begins to wander—toward worries, toward people we love, toward situations we can’t quite fix. At first it feels like ordinary thinking, the kind that loops and circles. But sometimes, almost without noticing, those thoughts begin to lean toward God. They soften. They open. They turn into something more like prayer.
Continue reading “When Thoughts Turn to Prayers”A Faith That Can Be Seen
To live our faith is to enter the slow, patient work of helping the world see what it has forgotten. Providing the context of our faith generates opportunity because when we speak clearly, gently, and with conviction, those who question can be lifted, almost without realizing it, out of the secular murk they inhabit. In that clearer air, they begin to notice vestiges of God’s grandeur shimmering through the ordinary. It may take years yet the evangelist keeps praying that the scattered pieces will one day assemble into a picture that makes sense: the reasonableness of God’s designs for the world and for human beings.
Continue reading “A Faith That Can Be Seen”Saying No to Say Yes
Our passions are gifts. They stir our hearts, move our bodies, and give energy to our days. Yet without order, they can scatter us—pulling us in many directions, leaving us restless and unfocused. The Christian tradition reminds us that passions are meant to be guided, not suppressed. They are to be aligned with love, directed toward God’s dream rather than our own impulses.
Continue reading “Saying No to Say Yes”Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do
I’ve been sitting with Rumi’s words that attracted me a few months ago:
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways
to kneel and kiss the ground.
