Today "It is a moment of light surrounded on all sides by darkness and oblivion. In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history,  there has never been another just like it and there will never be another just like it again. It is the point to which all your yesterdays […]

Oh so many of us spend our lives trying to earn the love of God ... When, through Christ, it is already ours. Rest, my friends ... rest in this truth. Listen to how Henri Nouwen puts it: "But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which […]

"To be Christian is to be grateful." (Karl Barth)

"I am a barbarously early riser ... I love the  empty, silent, dewy, cobwebby hours." (CS Lewis)

"To take the holy scriptures and read them is the first thing we have to do to open ourselves to God's call. Reading the scriptures is not as easy as it seems ... We tend to make anything and everything we read subject to analysis and discussion. But the word of God should lead us […]

"To struggle used to be to grab with both hands and shake and twist and turn and push and shove and not give in but wrest an answer from it all as Jacob did a blessing. But there is another way to struggle with an issue, a question -- Simply to jump off into the […]