Minute Meditations

Food offers a constant opportunity to take in gifts with gratitude, which is one of the fundamental practices of the spiritual life.

if approached with intention, such states can indeed be forms of prayer: deep, open attentiveness to the present moment, in which our own egos are emptied out so we have room to be filled with the divine.

Work is an essential part of the human vocation, part of what it means to be incarnated with material needs in a material world.

There’s a wonderful upside to such disciplined vigilance: the possibility of becoming true craftsmen and craftswomen of the time we’re given.

Humility is the hallmark spiritual virtue of letting go.

To be a materialist is, to use my Christian language, to believe fully in the Incarnation.