Actually Creating – May 25, 2023

“We do not experience ourselves as gift until we are engaged in the act of creating. The confirmation of a person as gift acknowledges what is obvious, but it does not give enough attention to what is not as evident—the unknown potential in a person that can be brought into existence only through the exercising […]

Everyone Yearns for a Call – Jan. 27, 2023

“Assume that everyone yearns. Scratch a person on the surface, even someone who is all crusted up in stale attitudes and ego entanglements, and you will find a soul beneath, one ready to grow, if only invited in a way that person can hear.” –John P. Schuster, Answering Your Call, p. 132

The Gift of Being a Person – Nov. 9, 2022

“Both true prayer and love for others are selfless, in that they lead us toward and emerge from a simultaneous death to self and discovery of a new self born of God. Both prayer and service to others reveal to us the tremendous truth that to be a person is to be a gift, and […]

Wired To Be Compassionate – July 12, 2022

“I mean simply to say that ultimately our greatest joy is when we seek to do good for others… It’s how we are made. I mean we are wired to be compassionate… We are wired to be caring for the other and generous to one another. We shrivel when we are not able to interact… […]