THE PRISON OF RESENTMENT
“Bring my soul out of prison that I may confess Your name.” (Ps 141:10/Ps 142:7) The “prison” that can keep me from “confessing the name”...
ANGER
“But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; because human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God....
OPENNESS TO CHANGE
“Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the...
LETTING HIM INTERRUPT
"Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he saw two...
PRAYING AGAIN AND AGAIN
“Again and again, in peace let us pray to the Lord.” (Litany of Byzantine Liturgy) There are two basic things to be said about prayer:...
KEEPING THINGS LIGHT
“Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was...
SURRENDER
“One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, ‘Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!’ But the other...
GROWTH IN CRISIS
“Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was...
REDEMPTION FROM WHAT?
“Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and had lived with a...
WONDER AND SURRENDER
“…and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him what was customary under the law, Simeon took him in his arms and...
