Minute Meditations

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God Is Always Good

The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins crystallized so beautifully the effect that John Duns Scotus’ teaching has on mystical minds: Yet ah! this air I …

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Pray the Words of St. Francis

One of my favorite authors is the great Hoosier science fiction writer, Kurt Vonnegut. A theme he often plays with in many of his novels is the notion that human beings are becoming more machine-like in their dependence on technology ...
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Francis of Assisi, Wedded to Poverty

“And to this poverty, my beloved brothers, you must cling with all your heart, and wish never to have anything else under heaven.” 
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Joy in Creating

The joy and fulfillment came in the creating, in the daring to create, day after day after day.
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‘I Was the Beloved’

I needed to remember who I was in the midst of this loss of control and rejection. I was the beloved.
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Downward Mobility

Downward mobility. It invites each of us to recalibrate.
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Promise of the Promised Land

It wasn’t until God’s people utilized the lesson from the desert that they made Jericho’s walls fall to the ground.
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