Minute Meditations

I’m now a seeker of these tree pietas, because they remind me of how the psalms catch me.

What the psalms began to teach me is to stay true to my human grief, to articulate it, to bring the fear and frustration straight to God.

That is what holy moments always feel like: I am great beyond belief and I am a little dot in the universe. This experience only needs to happen once, just as it did for Peter, James, and John.

You are to love with the same kind of love that God loves you, which is total unconditional love. This is the summit and goal of all Jesus’ moral teaching, and we cannot possibly follow it apart from divine union.

If we focus on finding common ground with one another, we’re less likely to end up in irreconcilable disputes. We might never come around to another’s point of view completely, but both sides may move closer to the middle.

The revelation of the Gospels is that our God is bigger and greater and more loving and trustworthy than even the best human being we have known.