Lord, let me never ignore/dismiss a truth from faith in order to preserve my self-referential identity. I see the white sepulchers clearly here! Lord, let me put my sisters and brothers above any need to be right, let me be humble always, and risk being “wrong” to be charitable!
Category: Spiritual Journey
The Spiritual Journey is the path to knowing God more and more, and thinking/acting toward ourselves and our world with that knowledge. These resources provide detail into specifics on my Spiritual Journey.
An Epiphany epiphany: If God is all merciful, why does hell exist?
All God asks is relationship and to seek Him. There are no qualifiers, this is a binary decision: Seek me or don’t seek me. If you seek Him, you know you are sick, and the Divine Physician will heal you, either in this life of the next. He will not abandon you. The extent to which you receive the fullness of joy in this life, how “abundantly” you live, relies on your discernment and participation in the divine life of the church.
Rest in peace, dear Joseph!
We started a new year celebrating the life of Joseph Ratzinger who has passed from this life. Joseph, aka Pope Benedict XVI, was the first Pope elected during my lifetime and I remember all the excitement and drama around it from my college days. His encyclicals were some of the first I read in their…