Minute Meditations

The absolute genius of the Twelve Steps is that it refuses to bless and reward what looks like any moral worthiness game or mere heroic willpower.

Those who can be present with head, heart, and body at the same time will always encounter the Presence, whether they call it God or not.

Religion’s main job is to reconnect us (re-ligio) to the Whole, to ourselves, and to one another—and thus heal us.

Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.

Pope Francis, like his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, calls us to read God’s presence not only in our holy books but in the holiness of the world around us, plant and animal as well as human.