Today's Life-Line is:
It is not an enviable position, this Christian thing. Following Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world. To allow what God for some reason allows—and uses. And to suffer ever so slightly what Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
I made a painting that has holes in it. Why is there holes? Because God says to us, I can not do all. I can create you, but I cannot do it all. You have to help Me fix the holes and put everything together. This is the learning Read more [...]
"Stories give coherence to the confusion of our experience."
~ Karen Armstrong
THE SEED OF COMPASSION
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. . .
This is the interrelated structure of reality.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There Read more [...]
I do these talks to make a point that you can have a painful life, you can suffer, you can experience what it's like to feel like a human being -- all those messy and gross emotions -- and yet you can make a life for yourself that you are very, very Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
”Even in the pit of hell, it’s a mitzvah to be joyful.” So said Rabbi Nachman of Bretslov, a mystic in the Hasidic tradition. A mitzvah is an act that honors the Divine. Even in hell, it is possible to be joyful, because Read more [...]
The piece "The Carol of the Season: I Am with You," first appeared on The Almond Tree, December 15, 2012. Today is the 4th anniversary of that terrible day in Newtown, CT when so many people's lives were scarred by heartless Read more [...]