Minute Meditations

Jesus commanded us to love; so we know love is not just a feeling, since we cannot command feelings.

When Jesus wants me to know he loves me, he lets me experience his wounds, his thorns, his agonies.

In prayer, we merely keep returning the divine gaze, and we become its reflection, almost in spite of ourselves (2 Corinthians 3:18).

Francis loved that image of himself as a lute strung for rapture. He wanted to stand in the wind and let the Holy Spirit play upon him for all the world to hear the beauty of his music.

How do we heal our severed human family, so sorely divided, and make a home for the ones who have been cast out and cruelly isolated?

Darkness is necessary. All life germinates in the dark, and we spend fully one half of our lives in that state.