To live spiritually, we seek to breathe with the Spirit’s rhythm and move in a God-ward direction on the long walk of faith. Fr. Hendry Nouwen. We wake up in the morning and move towards something better than yesterday. If not, we have a problem. The problem for a lot of people is to live…
Faith
Creating Spiritual Habits – 2
Friendship with God!
Friendships! What are they? We all have friends. We had some friends before and some of those friends are not friends anymore. Some friendships have been broken. What qualifies someone to be a friend? A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. In today’s Gospel Jesus speaks…
Fidelity to grace!
By now those of you who know me know that I like the books written by contemplatives. I also find myself as a contemplative-active person, meaning, I am not a good contemplative or a good active person. Fr. Thomas Merton, one of the greatest contemplatives of our time says, “Fidelity to grace in my life…
God’s Unbinding Relationship!
Changes in the weather talks are a fascinating topic at every gathering I have been in. When it snows we talk about it. When it rains we talk about it. When there is a bright day we talk about it. I have heard conversations about not having enough rain, sun, ice, snow, heat, or whatever….