Writings for the Journey

Many people try to figure out who God is. They want to put God on their examining tableto dissect God in the same way they would be dissecting a frog. I do not think it worksthat way. The “book of Job” in the Bible agrees. Theology is faith seeking understanding.Maybe...

In many movies, not only in old westerns but also in the latest blockbusters, there arethe good buys and the bad guys. The plot involves in eliminating the bad guys invarious ways.We too have become comfortable with the labels we assign to groups of peoples.Does God...

This is a story which many of you have heard about. A father goes to his son’s room  and tries to wake him up to go to school. His son says to him, “Give me three reasons why I need to get out of bed.” The father says, “Number one, you know it is your duty ...

There are many things that cross our mind when we look in our past. We can be awareof one or many tragedies that have or are occurring in our world almost on a dailybasis. We can remember our own experience of our successes and the times when wehave not measured up to...

Prayer can be tricky. Sometimes we might experience guilt for not having prayed  enough for the people who have asked for prayers. Sometimes we might feel that our  petitions to God are overwhelming. God knows our needs. God does not forget. Then there  is a Scripture...

When we plan our lives with certain goals in mind, we find that things often do not goour way. There are going to be losses. These could be a change in our health or thehealth of the people that we have counted on, or there could be changes in situationsin “our world”...

Yes, all religions have compassion as an attribute of God and of God’s desire for we humansto live compassionate lives. But we live in a world dominated by competition and to be overand against the other. This may come from a lack of having received compassion in...

What is holding us back from being our true selves? Could it be the pressures that we feelfrom the culture that is so much a part of our lives? In the American mystique we have thenotion of the “self-made man or woman” when in reality no one is an island unto...

Where does the imagination fit into the spiritual life? Ignatius of Loyola in his spiritualexercises uses the imagination to reenact events in the story of Jesus such as his birth andasks you to imagine yourself being present in that event. For example, you are a...