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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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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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What Really is Despair?
In the musical Les Miserables, there’s a particularly haunting song, sung by a dying woman (Fantine) who has been crushed by virtually every unfairness that life can deal a person.
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To Fall in Love
To fall in love! We use the expression to cover many things. You can fall in love with a baby, a sports team, a city, a job, or another person.
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My Top 10 Books for 2022
The book you need to read finds you, and finds you at that time in your life when you need to read it. I believe that old axiom, and offer
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Listening to Our Souls
During the Nazi occupation of France during the Second World War, a group of Jesuit theologians who were resisting the occupation published an underground newspaper, Cahiers du Temoignage Chretien, which
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Permission to be Sad
Let the preacher say, you have permission to be sad! In a book, When the Bartender Dims the Lights, Ron Evans writes: “There’s a line I came upon in the
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What is Love Asking of Me Now?
Several years ago, a colleague of mine suffered a crushing disappointment. Her instinctual temptation was towards anger, towards shutting a series of doors and withdrawing. Instead, wounded in spirit, she
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Our Heart is Stronger than our Wounds
Ten years before his death in 1996, Henri Nouwen was beset by a depression that nearly broke him. While in treatment, he wrote a very powerful book, The Inner Voice
https://ronrolheiser.com/our-heart-is-stronger-than-our-wounds/
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Huge Stones and Locked Doors
Soren Kierkegaard once wrote that the Gospel text he strongly identified with is the account of the disciples, after the death of Jesus, locking themselves into an upper room in