Join the Revolution — Be a Pebble

Out of the mouth of babes. ~ some wise toddler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWQoZbgGh9o   Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ~ Rev. Sydney Smith What I want to bring out is how a pebble Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 1. Love

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? Let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. ~ 1 John 3:18 I really only love God as much as I love the person I love least. ~ Dorothy Day Sports enthusiasts Read more [...]

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 2/4

~ continued from yesterday (since this is written as a conversation, you may want to hit "previous" and read the last paragraph or two) When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. ~ John O'Donohue Authentic faith leads Read more [...]

Choosing to Sow Seeds of Love

Today's Life Line is: Christian spirituality involves the conscious, intentional, immediate, and ongoing choice to incarnate love in the face of our own contingency and certain, imminent death. In other words, in the full awareness of the fragility Read more [...]

Consecrating the Common Deed

One of the great realizations I gleaned from my years studying the life and works of Rabbi Abraham Heschel is the power, imperative, and sanctity of the common deed, the seemingly simple gesture, word, or act so typically overlooked and often left Read more [...]

Consecrating the Common Deed ~ A Life-Line

An authentic spirituality, whatever the religious tradition, is manifested less in the heroic, dramatic, or sensational feat than in the ongoing consecration of the present moment, the common deed, the simple gesture, the considerate thought, the brief Read more [...]

The Categorical Imperative

The glory of God is the human person fully alive,
and the life of the human is the vision of God.
~ St. Irenaeus of Lyons
You shall lovingly accept the humanity entrusted to you!
You shall be obedient to your destiny! You shall not continually try Read more [...]