Minute Meditations

Silence Is a Language God Can Speak

Ilia Delio, OSF October 25, 2019

Too often our prayers are projections of our own needs and desires and we give God little room to enter into the conversation. Talking all the time to God without ever listening is like a phone conversation with constant static; it is deafening to God. Silence is a language God can speak without being constantly interrupted because God is a mystery of incomprehensible love, and love speaks for itself.

What It Means to Be Blessed

Terry Hershey October 18, 2019

To be blessed, is to know that place of no striving. To be blessed, is to know that place of rest and dignity. To be blessed, is to know that I am loved by a gracious Creator, and that I ...

Unabashed Joy Is Already Inside of Us

Terry Hershey October 17, 2019

Let us pause and remember that savoring isn’t something you add or acquire. Unabashed joy is already inside. It springs from within. It is a well of abundance that you draw from. So, savoring is not a technique. And savoring ...

Live Without Holding Back

Terry Hershey October 15, 2019

I have lived most of my emotional and spiritual life with a heart condition. Because I have lived cautious and afraid, holding back my heart because of what it might cost, or require of me. Or fearing (running from) my ...

Living Intentionally and Fully Alive

Terry Hershey October 14, 2019

Living intentionally and fully alive—from a place of groundedness, being at home in our own skin—is not a technique. Nor is it a kind of mental Rubik’s cube, to be solved. There is no list. But if we demand one, ...

Live in the Mystery of God's Love

Ilia Delio, OSF October 12, 2019

Did you ever have one of those days where the whole idea of God was just too much to think about? As if trying to “get a handle” on God was like trying to kiss the moon? If the mystics ...

God's Creative Will

Murray Bodo, OFM October 10, 2019

God’s creative will is an eternally sustaining will, namely, that my existence will not end, summons me to humble acquiescence and dialogue—or to proud, illusory self-sufficiency, which is a kind of hell because it severs the bond of love and results ...