What You Desire – Feb. 24, 2023

“Because it is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.” -The Cloud of Unknowing, trans. James Walsh, Ch. 75, p. 265

Loved, not Thought – Feb. 21, 2023

“He can certainly be loved, but not thought. He can be taken and held by love but not by thought.” –The Cloud of Unknowing, trans. James Walsh, Ch. 6, p. 130

We Are the Beloved – Feb. 10, 2023

“For Christians who have gone into their own depths, there is the uncovering of an indwelling Presence – a deep, loving “yes” inherent within us. In Christian theology, this inner Presence would be described as the Holy Spirit, which is precisely God as immanent, within, and even our deepest truest self. God is the very ground of […]

What Did I Expect?

When I agreed to follow Jesus, I had no idea what I was getting into. I was forty years old, and had spent most of my life alternately yearning for and avoiding a deeper relationship with God. When I was in my early teens, I went to a Jewish summer camp in the San Bernardino […]