journal and reflections

The Celtic Irish tradition recognizes that the eternal and the transient worlds are woven in and through each other. Very often at death, the inhabitants of the eternal world come out toward the visible world. . . . Your friends who now live in the eternal world...

As we approach the special time of All Souls and All Saints Days, the following reflection by Richard Rohr is truly uplifting and eye opening. What some call “liminal space” or threshold space (in Latin, limen means a threshold) is a very good phrase for those...

The Divine action may turn our lives upside down; it may call us into various forms of service.  Readiness for any eventuality is the attitude of one who has entered into the freedom of the Gospel.  Commitment to the new world that Christ is creating requires...

Francis of Assisi was a man with a magnetic personality who believed he was called by God to live a life of poverty and simplicity.  His message and life seemed to be exactly suited for the age. Similar to the monastic orders, Francis chose vows of poverty and...

When you say God, you don’t really mean God.  You mean your idea of God, or, to put it another way, you mean God as not-God.  I say that because whatever we say about God is more unlike who God is than saying nothing.  And so, where do you begin?  Well, all that...

It is amazing the number of choices we make in a day.  Small things like, should I work-out and get some exercise or get comfy on the couch with a good movie?  Do I want chicken for dinner or should I have fish? Clean the garage?  No, I dont' think so.  But there...

September has a strange and wonderful feeling. It is the best part of the summer and the hardest part of the summer. Just when summer gets perfect—fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches and free weekends—it...

Become the one you are waiting for. You have searched, secretly believing that there must be more … that somehow, you were not enough. In letting go of the burden of truth, another empty promise, you have arrived here … There is no ground behind you on which to...

Every difficult thing in life is not a cross. A lot of things are difficult in life but that does not make them crosses. A cross is that which we do not choose and do not want. It is outside the normal order of life. It is what confounds our plans or disturbs our...