Minute Meditations
At Home with Angels and Beasts
We humans belong to both realms, the realm of the senses and a realm that goes beyond them. This stretches us. To avoid the tension of this stretching process we are apt to settle for half of our rightful inheritance. Still, our human birth gives us a dual citizenship. Only by claiming both realms as home can we avoid the polarization of our human consciousness. Our noblest task is to make the most of this creative tension. If we neglect what goes beyond our senses, we sink below animals.
God’s Love Is Free
Freedom is the gift of God’s humble love. It is the gift of a God who loves us faithfully despite our failures, always bending low to embrace us in love. God’s love is free because real love always desires the ...
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Turn Your Heart Toward God
Francis and his early followers remind us that it is not place or circumstances that make us free, it is the heart that makes us free when it is turned toward God.
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Christ Is the Reason for Creation
Jesus is God-with-us, the human One who mediates our relationship with God for all eternity. What happened in Jesus, however, must take place in all humanity (and creation)
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Love Can Transform the World
As God bends low to love us where we are, we must be open to welcome God in our lives, to embrace this God of humble love and to allow God to live in us in every way.
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Christ at the Heart of the World
Through his life in Christ he came to see that Christ cannot be limited to a single human person; rather, Christ encompasses the whole creation.
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God’s Humble Love Lives in Us
if the universe is to find its fulfillment in Christ, God’s humble love must live in us through grace and freedom.
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