“The soul that walks in love neither tires others, nor grows tired.” I can’t get that line from 16th century Spanish mystic John of the Cross out of my head…

I thought I was being kidnapped. It wasn’t a rational thought, in fact, in hindsight it was absurd, but the feeling of fear was real. Turns out…

When you realize you are with an emotionally and spiritually immature person gently let go of your judgment that they are immature and love them as if they were…

Humility is a virtue for one reason - because it enables us to love more deeply. Humility comes…

There’s a lot to be said for coming to understanding when faced with something that is confounding. The breakthrough from…

There’s just one group of people on the planet. All the divisions are manufactured. From God’s perspective we are…

If you’ve done something wrong, take responsibility for it and make amends. Say you're sorry. The feeling of guilt comes up from…

Life just keeps coming at you, doesn’t it? Sometimes it feels like we live in a constant, raging storm of bad news. A person needs a strategy for…

All the punctuation was added to the Gospels long after the stories and sayings of Jesus were originally written down. So, every comma, exclamation point, question mark, and semi-colon is an interpretative choice. I like to try to…

My opinion has limited worth. It matters, but not all that much. Sometimes when I hear…

I would really like to be perfect, but I am increasingly aware that perfection is not in the cards for me. Life has a pretty solid habit of giving me…

The deepest truth of your life and the life of everybody on the planet is that the fullness of God dwells within you. Therefore…

When you have a problem it is tempting to look for an expert who knows a lot about the thing with which you’re struggling. Sometimes that’s a…

No matter what you think you want, your soul, the deepest, truest part of you, wants God one thousand times more than it wants any created thing…

Jesus loves to answer a question by telling a story. His famous Good Samaritan story is prompted by the question, “Who is my neighbor?” With this story…

Humble people are naturally curious. They have little need to tell you about themselves and their accomplishments, but they are full of wonder about you and your story. They have very little if any concern with being right…

God is sacrificial love. Sacrificial love is love in which the one who loves loses something, sometimes everything, and doesn’t expect it back…

Let’s say we had a common opponent. Hypothetically, of course. What if a group of us had a common opponent?

If you want to know how far you’ve come in letting go of your attachment to what other people think of you, let a…

If you want to know how far you’ve come in letting go of your attachment to what other people think of you, let a false rumor get started about you and see how you react.