
Apart or a Part? Our Relationship to the Planet
Everything has some meaningful connection to everything else. Everything belongs, everything matters.
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Everything has some meaningful connection to everything else. Everything belongs, everything matters.

Richard Rohr sometimes talks about how negative thoughts have a way of sticking to our brains like velcro, while positive thoughts have a way of slipping away like teflon.

Genesis recounted the earliest times of the Israelites’ history and their migration into Egypt. Exodus tells the story of their return to the land God had promised them.

Take a break today from the burden of the day’s news, and the cacophony of social media. In that stillness, let the soft healing of the Holy Spirit fill in those spaces where you usually find worry.

I will meditate on you. “You indeed are my savior, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy” (Ps 63:8).

Joseph makes his brothers promise to take his bones back to Canaan with them when the time comes for the Israelites to return from Egypt. God’s plans seem to be reaching a conclusion.

God promises that he will bring Abraham’s family out of Egypt and back to Canaan in his own time, in his own way.

My hope is that someday my kids will discover their own personal chapels—wherever that may be.

God had been secretly at work the whole time. To provide safety to Jacob’s family, God had arranged to bring Joseph into Egypt, followed by the rest of the family.

In this week’s Gospel, Jesus sends out the disciples to share his message with all those they encounter, but warns that they may not always be welcomed.