Second Wind
Marathoners call it “hitting the wall” when your energy supply seems to have run out.
Marathoners call it “hitting the wall” when your energy supply seems to have run out.
Moses’ “meeting tent” also reminds us that God has pitched his tent among us as well.
Can God spread a table in the desert? How can we not ask this question in a time of pandemic and climate disaster?
God picks little guys like Moses—the “childlike,” the barren couple, the migrant family—to change the world.
We hear Thomas’s story and realize that it is possible to doubt one minute and then say without hesitation, “My Lord and my God.”
A wise Benedictine friend once said, “Sometimes, all we can do is say to God, ‘What are you asking of me?’” When he was a young man, his dream of…
When I ask myself what it is that my heart desires, I am always met with “things that show my weakness. . . ”
The human heart must be receptive and cooperative with this work of God, open to the power of the Spirit at work within.
Have you ever read the Gospels and thrown your arms in the air saying, “Come on! Really?” I have.
Sometimes we simply cannot fully appropriate all there is to know, and the wise person understands this. Jesus certainly did.