The Liberation of Love – May 7, 2019
“We can create the climate and nurture the trust in which a deep giving of ourselves can happen. Much more than the confession of our light or our darkness is involved. What is involved is the recovery of love itself, the communion that is the deepest need of every life, the unlocking of that infinite […]
Extravagant Abundance
Extravagant abundance was Jesus’ signature style. In today’s Gospel passage,* that unnerving profusion is manifested at Lake Gennesaret. Jesus tells Simon to take his boat back out in the lake and cast his fishing nets out again, though was exhausted from having just been fishing all night. After some well-justified resistance, Simon did as Jesus […]
The I of the Storm
The storm outside my home is rattling the windows and flooding the foundation. Fortunately, the windows are tightly fitted and there is a drain in the concrete floor of the house. Yet inside myself there is a storm that distresses me day after day. There is not enough time to accomplish my tasks well. There […]
How Does Healing Happen?
“How does healing happen?” I asked my dad, a seasoned country doctor in general practice. “It’s an inside job,” he said with a wink. “Medicine helps of course, but the body heals from its own resources. We honestly don’t know all that much about how the immune system works, or why healing happens better for […]
