Minute Meditations

Christ calls us to the here and now. He wants us to be present to people and things that actually make a difference.

The Bible is slowly giving us a face capable of receiving divine dignity, and even daring to think that we could love God back—and that God would care! We are gradually being drawn inside the very mystery of Divine sharing. ...

God is creating, quite literally, some friends for Godself! Jesus became the full representation of one who accepted and lived that friendship. In fact, he never seemed to doubt it. That must be at the core of our imitation of ...

The Fall is not simply something that happened to Adam and Eve in one historical moment. It’s something that happens in all moments and all lives. It must happen and will happen to all of us. In fact, as the ...

I think forgiveness is the only event in which we simultaneously experience three great graces: God’s unmerited goodness, the deeper goodness of the one we have forgiven, and the experience of our own gratuitous goodness. That’s the payoff. This makes ...

God is not afraid of mistakes, it seems. God knows that God can turn everything around—into good. There are no dead ends in the economy of grace. • When have you made mistakes? How has God turned those events around, ...