WORD AS SEED
As the Word is seed (Luke 8:11) which is revealed and communicated, that is, it is conceived and born in us, so also it is […]
February 2018
SUPPOSED TO WIN
I did a lot more,You did a lot less,But you still won… I did a lot less,You did a lot more,But you still won… I […]
FALSE AND TRUE PROPHETS #2
“Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of […]
FALSE AND TRUE PROPHETS #1
“So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel. And Elijah came near to all the people and […]
STICKING OUR NECK OUT
We can never truly pray as individuals if we are completely set apart from the world. We only seek silence so we can take that […]
SO MUCH STRAW
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), a Dominican priest and one of the most brilliant scholars likened his work to straw in his latter days. The episode […]
SELF-DENIAL
There is little possibility of understanding self-love and acceptance without understanding the process of self-denial. Self-denial has a bad history in that the old and […]
UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) wrote, “When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of “No answer.” It is […]
WAYS OF RESPONSE
The thought on my mind deserves a lot of contemplation and I feel like a few quick notes are only a clumsy attempt to describe […]