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Helplessness as Fruitful
Sometimes we are the most helpful and life-giving at the very times when we are most helpless. We’ve all been there. We’re at a funeral and there’s nothing to say
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Love Beyond Death
Gilbert K. Chesterton once stated that Christianity is the only democracy where even the dead get to vote. In light of that, I share two stories. A psychologist at a
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The Power of Words
Words give us meaning. We can’t make or remake reality, but the words we choose to name our reality can lift us out of the humdrum of everyday experience. Unfortunately,
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Bad Thoughts
Someone once quipped that we spend the first half of our lives struggling with the sixth commandment – Thou shalt not commit adultery – and the second half of our
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A Subtler Kind of Poverty
There are different ways of being excluded in life. Earlier this year, one of my older brothers died. By every indication he had lived an exemplary life, one lived mainly
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Our Lifestyle and Our Over-Strained Planet
In a book, The Book of Hope, which he co-authored with Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams makes this statement: Creating the human race may be the single biggest mistake evolution ever
https://ronrolheiser.com/our-lifestyle-and-our-over-strained-planet/
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Our Deepest Loneliness
Harvard psychologist Robert Coles, in describing the French mystic Simone Weil, once suggested that what she really suffered from and what motivated her life was her moral loneliness. What is
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Surrendering to Love
Perhaps all of Jesus’ invitations to us can be summarized in one word, surrender. We need to surrender to love. But why is that difficult? Shouldn’t it be the most
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A Single Line Says it All!
You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. No single line, outside of scripture, has ever spoken to me as powerfully,
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Hypocrisy’s Two Faces
The subtlety of hypocrisy! How easy it is not to see our own inconsistencies, even as we so clearly see the faults of others. Are we willfully blind, or is