Recognizing Jesus
Sometimes there are so many interesting details in one Bible story that I don’t know where to look. This third encounter between the resurrected Jesus and the disciples* is one such story: Peter naked in the boat, hurriedly putting his clothes back on before diving into the water; the very specific count of fish. When […]
Soul Friends – Feb. 14, 2022
“Soul friends play an essential role in helping us to welcome in the inner stranger. Often meeting these parts of ourselves that have been abandoned again and again brings on tears of recognition and homecoming.” –Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening (Sorin Books, Notre Dame, 2018), p. 55-56
Gifts – Aug. 10, 2021
“A midrash tells us that “when the world was created God made everything a little bit incomplete. Rather than making bread grow right out of the earth, God made wheat grow so that we might bake it into bread. In this way we could become partners in completing the work of creation.” Recognition. Repetition. Reverence. […]
Innate Recognition – Apr. 29, 2021
“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.” -John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
