The Spirit of Delight
We breathe in the spirit that delights in our being — the fragrance of it. And it works on us. Then we exhale (for that breath has to go somewhere)…
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Changing Course
There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love. Ruskin’s comment that you can get someone to remove his coat more surely…
Wait for It.
Teilhard de Chardin wrote that we must “trust in the slow work of God.” Ours is a God who waits. Who are we not to? It takes what it takes…
Resilience
Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range. — Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart, p. 94 Photo:…
God’s Joy
God, I guess, is more expansive than every image we think rhymes with God. How much greater is the God we have than the one we think we have. More…
Narrow Our Focus
Jesus, in Matthew’s gospel, says, “How narrow is the gate that leads to life.” Mistakenly, I think, we’ve come to believe that this is about restriction. The way is narrow.…
No Time for Disappointment
“Behold the One beholding you and smiling.” It is precisely because we have such an overactive disapproval gland ourselves that we tend to create God in our own image. It…
God’s Joy
I was brought up and educated to give assent to certain propositions. God is love, for example. You concede “God loves us,” and yet there is this lurking sense that…
Our Great God
The secret, of course, of the ministry of Jesus, was that God was at the center of it. Jesus chose to marinate in the God who is always greater than…
Pleased with Us
God would seem to be too occupied in being unable to take Her eyes off of us to spend any time raising an eyebrow in disapproval. What’s true of Jesus…