"Come! Death. I trust you
as much as I have trusted life.
Now come and sweep me into
your mystery"
~ Sr. Jeanette Wasinger ~
A Catholic sister learns she has stage 4 lung cancer, inspires me with her faith-filled response to it, blesses me with Read more [...]
The story below reminds me of something the late Gerald May wrote in the Introduction to his book Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth. May begins his book with a confession.
"I am no Read more [...]
I have long maintained that from among the plethora of words within the 16 documents from the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church (1962-65), perhaps the most important words were four that are found in the first chapter of the Constitution Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.*
~ Julian of Norwich
*Note Well -- The spirit of Julian's famous line is not passivity or Pollyannaish do-nothingism but rather deep, abiding, Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
Speaking with a friend about death and the reality of God artist Richard Caemmerer said, "I choose to live my life as if there is a God and to find out there isn’t rather than to live my life thinking there isn’t and die to Read more [...]