Category: Blessings
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The light of Your holy face
You allowed me a wonderful blessing recently, Lord, which I hope to capture here in words as transcendent as the experience. How do I explain the experience in a way that enlivens and fills with hope the hearts of others today? It reminded me of the experience of the apostles who witnessed Your transfiguration. Could…
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Slow Down, Pay Attention
Thank you for being here with me, Father.For allowing me to feel Your presence,To experience the warmth of Your love,To imagine You sitting here with me,A friend,A healer,A lover, present in all things. I like to tell myselfI have full faith in You, Father.Yet, why is it,That I am surprised?Unbelieving of Your gifts?Your answers to…
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“Words are cheap,” he said.
This is what my friend replied in response to my suggestion that he write a letter to express his frustration and displeasure about how the church is handling one of its difficult current issues. He’s an extremely bright, critical thinker and has a particular gift for written expression. I could do nothing to change or…
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When we know that we know, we can dare to look…
Greetings to each of you. And I pray that you are experiencing God’s blessings on your day this very day, even as I write these words. The early days and weeks of 2015 have been so filled with God’s grace and love. Even though I often only feel the full warmth of His touch after…
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Waiting and Watching for God
In the past I have often become agitated and grumpy with congested driving, slow lines and waiting. Thankfully, these times have diminished somewhat in recent decades, due to two main reasons I think – one mundane, the other somewhat more enlightened. On the mundane level, my family moved to an Island from which many commute…
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If God is everywhere equally present, then…
He can be found, felt…perceived in any place. Henri Nouwen, Thomas Merton, Brother Lawrence, St Ignasius, and countless others, past and present, tell us how and where to find God, to hear His directions and desires for our lives. This morning I was reading Nouwen’s book Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life. In today’s…
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Life is very, very good. Life with God in charge is….heavenly.
It has been so long since I’ve written substantively here…so long since we’ve talked…that it’s hard to know where to start. And, isn’t this always the way where there’s separation, disconnection, distance? We lose our place. We miss important events in one anothers’ lives. We fall out of touch. The “project,” I’ll call it, was…
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If We See God In All Things, Evil Will Find No Home In Us
To all my virtual friends, my belated, but warmly felt Easter greeting. As I alluded to…wow, it’s been a few weeks ago, now…time is flying in my world…life has intervened and taken me, temporarily, from this platform. I miss each of you and look forward to being more present with you again soon. My daughter…
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‘In the midst of the thicket,’ we’ve not necessarily lost our way. Let our friends reassure us.
These are the two take-aways for me from In gratitude to friends, Mags Blackie, most recent post. This message is particularly comforting to me just now. My interior life, this blog are being sorely challenged just now and for the foreseeable future, as life has seemed to intervene with priorities that can’t be set aside.…
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Our Father comforts and encourages even during times of deprivation
Merton writes that even though contemplation and sanctity are found through deprivation, most of us so fear fully relying on God that we end up depriving ourselves of the experience. He says: The prospect of this wilderness is something that so appalls most men that they refuse to enter upon its burning sands and travel…
Walking With My Brother 