"Let my trust be in Your mercy, not in myself. Let my hope be in Your love, not in health, or strength, or ability, or my own resources." (Thomas Merton)

"We are here because God - the One who wants to be completely known - has something to show us ... We do not always see that we should be moving about our days and lives and places with awe and reverence and wonder, with the same soft steps with which we enter the room  […]

One thing I despise is simple answers to questions about prayer.  There is something that rings so false to me when people act like they have prayer and God all figured out. This is why I love writers, thinkers, dreamers who aren't afraid of mystery. Especially when it comes to prayer ... One of my […]

"All the absurd little meetings, decisions, inner skirmishes that go to make up our days. It all adds up to very little, and yet it all adds up to very much. Our days are full of nonsense, and yet not, because it is precisely into the nonsense of our days that God speaks to us […]

We had a big snow last night. So big that we had no power for most of the morning ... Aside from being cold, I was amazed at how much  reading I could get in when there was literally nothing else for me to do. I came across this gem from a Wendell Berry novel: […]

The words of Martin Luther King, Jr.  seem appropriate for our time: "Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this […]