Minute Meditations

Powerlessness, the state of the shipwrecked, is an experience we all share anyway, if we are sincere

God calls us to mystical activism, a deep-rooted spirituality inspired by our encounters with God and commitment to our spiritual practices, to bring beauty and healing to the world.

What we bring to the pursuit of the God of life is what we will get out of it.

Clearly one of the pillars of the spiritual life, as far as the Desert Monastics were concerned, was a time and place for reflection

The word change normally refers to new beginnings. But transformation, the mystery we’re examining, more often happens not when something new begins, but when something old falls apart.

Living in a transitional age is scary: It’s falling apart, it’s unknowable, it doesn’t cohere, it doesn’t make sense, it’s all mystery again, and we can’t put order in it.