Blessing – Sep. 3, 2021
“Within each struggle, there is a blessing waiting to happen. The biblical passage of Jacob struggling with a messenger of God is a symbolic story of our own struggle with the unwanted parts of our life. Allduring the long night (the darkness), Jacob wrestles with this unknown figure (our unwanted lifeexperiences). Jacob is wounded in […]
The Good News – Aug. 26, 2021
“The good news is that dark and light, faith and doubt, divine absence and presence, do not exist at opposite poles. Instead, they exist with and within each other, like distinct waves that roll out of the same ocean and roll back into it again. As different as they are, they come from and return […]
The Jesus We Have
“You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go?”* When I read that question, I am filled with tenderness towards my past self, a self so broken-hearted that I was contemplating walking away from Jesus. Like the followers in John’s gospel, I […]
Contemplation – Mar. 18, 2021
“Contemplation is about stepping out of the world of surface appearances and illusions and into eternity in the presence of God. The eternal reality is that each of us bears a “weight of glory” that would dazzle us like the sun, if we looked straight into it now. But like the sun, seeing by its […]
