“Grounding social action in contemplative consciousness is not a luxury for a few, but surely a cultural necessity…”
Holding Fear and Confusion
Category Archives: Seasons of God
Living the Liturgy
Pentecost 2023
Let’s make ourselves “open to receive the Spirit’s flame so that it will come to rest in our hearts”
Doors of Light
“In the ascension, humanity rises into divinity. When experienced in a personal way, the heart ascends into the mind. It is a preparation for the coming of the Holy Spirit on what is called Pentecost in the book of Acts. With Pentecost, the divine descends on the human. On a personal level, the mind descends into the heart…”
Doors of Light
The Inner Witness
“Our favored and precious ways that we’ve come to experience the love of God must give way to a new one. The Spirit becomes an ever deepening “inner witness” of this love that dispossesses us even as it charges our lives.”
Dwelling Places
“Augustine wrote, ‘No man can rest until he rests in God,’ but God Himself won’t rest until He rests in humanity.”
The Inner Shepherd
“As the early Christians were martyred, many were buried in the catacombs of Rome. The believing community would paint the image of The Good Shepherd on many of their tombs. This served as a sign that they were not really “dead” in the sense of what is normally defined as “dead.” Rather, they were shepherded by the one who “died once for all” (Rm. 6:10) and now lives in the power of eternal life…”
On the Road
“We begin on the road of our lives’ disappointments, wounds, and disillusionments. And in the midst of our musings and complaints, Jesus appears as a stranger to us and begins to ask the questions our souls need to hear…”
Squinting into the Sunlight
“In uncertain times, (and really, all times are uncertain), people of faith struggle with the question, ‘What is God doing in all of this?’”
Wells in the Wilderness
“It’s at the desert well where humanity fills the human need of the divine and the divine meets the eternal need of the human. It’s a symbiotic and synergistic relationship…”
