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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
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Divine Permission for Human Fatigue
Someone once asked Therese of Lisieux if it was wrong to fall asleep while in prayer. Her answer: Absolutely not. A little child is equally pleasing to her parents, awake
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Giving Up on Fear
A friend of mine shares this story. He was an only child. When he was in his late twenties, still single, building a successful career and living in the same
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Unfinished Relationships
A colleague of mine, a clinical therapist, shares this story: A woman came to him in considerable distress. Her husband had recently died of a heart attack. His death had
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What Will Heaven Be Like?
Andrew Greeley once suggested that we might profitably meditate on the following vision of heaven: The condition of physical ecstasy and emotional satisfaction which results from sexual intercourse between two
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The Illusion of Self-Sufficiency
A number of years ago, I attended the funeral of a man who died at the age of ninety. From every indication, he had been a good man, solidly religious,
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It Comes and it Goes
The 13th century Persian poet and Sufi mystic, Rumi, once said that this is how faith moves in our lives: We live with a deep secret that sometimes we know,
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Private Integrity
In a 1990s movie, City Slickers, there’s a scene that sheds light on the importance of private integrity. Three men, New Yorkers, close friends, have gone off together for a