Minute Meditations

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.

Hope was always the bedrock of Dr. Martin Luther King's work. “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving,” he said.

It has been said many times that after transformation you seldom have the feeling you have found anything.