When God dresses us up in the armor of light we become bearers of light to people who are mired in darkness. Our call is…

I am going to wear the same clothes for the entire month. What I mean is that for the whole season of Advent I am going to try to wear the armor of light. That’s my Advent intention…

The most important question a person can ask is, Where is God in this moment? What pleases God most is…

Attachment to outcomes will destroy you. Attachment to outcomes other than love degrade and destroy me because they…

Peace is not a brokered deal, it is a sacrifice made in love. Peace does not…

A person I met a long time ago at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville said something that blew me away and lodged itself in my memory. She said…

A number of years ago I went on an 8-day silent meditation retreat for the first time. I was excited and nervous. 8 days is a long time to be quiet…

“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…