Minute Meditations

An old ladder reaching into the night starry sky.

Creation Is a Ladder to God

Penance, poverty, humility and compassion were the values that forged Francis into a “cosmic brother,” one who was related to all creatures and to the elements of creation.
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What the Desert Monastics Knew

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

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.
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Living in a Transitional Age

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.
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Read with the Eyes of Compassion

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.
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Prayer Is Singing God’s Song

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

We don’t know what the new year will hold for us, for our families, for the world. But we know that God will continue to be with us.
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