Daily Reflections
Reflection What does it mean to be made in the image of God? In part it is to say that wisdom is deep within us, deeper than the ignorance of…
Reflection The Christian ideal is personal goodness, but personal goodness requires that we be more than pious, more than faithful to the system, more than mere card-carrying members of the…
Reflection As we mature spiritually, we realize that prayer involves a wrestling with our concept of God. The comfortable God of our beginnings has been replaced by a Holy Mystery…
Reflection Jesus took Peter, James and Johnand led them up a high mountain apart by themselvesand he was transfigured before them.Mark 9:2-10 In spiritual traditions, the mountain top is where…
Reflection Spirituality is an awareness that we long to reach a dimension beyond ourselves. It is a desire to know the Incomprehensible Mystery that we believe exists and is in…
Reflection God who loves us knows us. We long to be known, not only from the outside but from within. We feel that if others knew us as we really…
Reflection Jesus lived and taught compassion. His deep awareness and sympathy for the needs and sufferings of those whom he met enabled him to recognize their hunger, their illnesses, their…
Reflection God’s forgiveness is unconditional; it comes from a heart that does not demand anything for itself, a heart that is completely empty of self-seeking. It is this divine forgiveness…
Reflection Separation is an illusion. Both religion and science confirm this truth; the experiences of the mystics, the teachings of ecology and physics, all the possible ways we can connect…
Reflection The foundation of a truly Christian life is to believe in the teaching of Jesus and to act on it. It becomes obvious in the everyday way in which…