Never Give Up

Here we have had that odd phenomenon, the "extra day" in Leap Year. It was a particularly slow day, perhaps because I am anxious f...

Why is love hard? I talk about it all the time and I make it sound easy because I wish it were easy. And, really, it is easy. But it'...

Sometimes Josefina climbs on me and studies  my face really, really close. She spends a minute scrutinizing all over my face, from the ears ...

My desire is to have a passionate attention to reality, but to be free of that reductive, manipulative attachment that tries to imprison th...

Imagine seeing this face, all day, every day. Okay, now those of you who have just melted, please mop yourselves up and think for a moment...

I don't want people to know. I want to hide from it myself. I don't want to look at those places in me where sin really troubles me....

I am because I am made. Like my voice, which is the echo of a vibration, if I cease the vibration, it no longer exists. Like spring water r...

I have been very open on this blog about the fact that I spent several years living more or less as an invalid after my retirement from teac...

It is early in the morning. Almost time to wake up Lucia. She lies on the pillow with her soft gentle eyes closed i...

Sometimes we throw around terms like "secularism" and "the secularized West." It is important to be precise about what t...

A fellow blogger has proposed this common theme as something that all of us can share with one another and our readers. I'm not sure how...

I think that many times people are put off by the idea of God, or feel threatened by Him, because they think of God’s greatness and power as...

Dear friends and readers, what is it that motivates me to write? It is not all vanity and grandstanding, or hunger for admiration and sympat...

I have been told by some that I have an "internet ministry." I understand that the term "ministry" here is being used in...

"The Absolute, the Mystery, is Father.... This truth that Christ has revealed does not diminish the Absolute. Rather, it deepens our kn...

I write because I am trying to understand what it means to be a human being, and in seeking that understanding I am looking at the experienc...

Beautiful, mild winter days. The arc of the sun is higher in the sky each day. Flower buds here and there have sprouted in the grass, but ...

I have been in substantial remission for over a year, and I have begun to push a little on the frontiers of the delicate balance of activity...

Thoughts on marriage. It was a bit of a cold morning, and Eileen and I were both going out. The car had a thin layer of frost on windows. ...

We must trust in Jesus. But why does this seem so hard? If trust is something we are afraid of, then we must ask Jesus to take the fear, t...