Minute Meditations

Christians have often been poor at practicing the Sabbath, imagining it to be a Jewish practice for which Jesus showed apparent disregard.

And the miracles, all of them, move forward, as miracles do, and this new one, a boy who believed, who chronicled miracles about holy bread.

Our children need us to help them become the people we imagine when we dream of their future.

The truth is, no matter the depth of any faith or trust in God, we betray one another and are betrayed. It adds up.

There is a mysticism for everyone. The mysticism Francis offers is for all believers, a mysticism that he illustrates through the gestures of his own life.

I have encountered people who don't recognize their physical and emotional pain because they've never had the opportunity to experience it deeply.