Minute Meditations

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.

There’s a moral realism in healthy and grounded people. They’re not ideological, on the left or the right. They can accept people whom others have judged for one reason or another.

Whatever we hear, but also whatever we see, taste, touch, or smell, vibrates deep down with God’s song