Doubt Can Be Beneficial
The word ponder means “to weigh.” Do people need to weigh something about which they are absolutely certain? Does that describe the Virgin Mary’s faith at every point of her life? Isn’t it more likely that at the foot of Jesus’ cross, ...
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The Soul Desires, Loves, and Lets Go
An ego response is always an inadequate or even wrong response to the moment. It will not deepen or broaden life, love, or inner laughter. Your ego self is always attached to mere externals, since it has no inner substance ...
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God Desires Our Happiness
How helpful it is to see sin, like addiction, as a disease, a very destructive disease, instead of merely something that was culpable, punishable, or “made God unhappy.” If sin indeed made God unhappy, it was because God desires nothing ...
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Success Isn't Everything
I cannot pretend to understand God, but this is what I see: People who have moved from seeming success to seeming success seldom understand success at all, except a very limited version of their own. People who fail to do ...
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Love Responds to Love
We have been graced for a truly sweet surrender, if we can radically accept being radically accepted—for nothing! “Or grace would not be grace at all”! (Romans 11:6). As my father, St. Francis, put it, when the heart is pure, ...
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The World Is Pregnant with God
Reading the Book of Life gave Francis new meaning to the world around him. He began to read the Book of Life in the book of the world because the Book of Life gave him “insight”—new vision. He read the ...
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Christ Is the Book of Life
Christ is the Book of Life. Somehow we still do not read this book properly. We buy lots of books hoping to find the answers to our many questions of life; yet, we do not know how to read this ...
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