Writings for the Journey

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...

When I understood the theory of projections, it was like a new light shown on the shadow side of life.  The things or persons that I had antipathy for were the very things or character traits that I had not recognized myself.  Examples would be: not wanting...

We hear from many quarters the advice to relish the present moment. That it is in thismoment that God is present, that in living in the present we will find the key to meaning.With the passage of time, it also is very easy to have settled in to certain habits, which...