Where’s the Value in Life?

Time to get real No more cookie-cutter solutions We all have felt that aching of the spirit, that deep-down hunger and seemingly unquenchable thirst for something we couldn’t identify. We’ve all felt that loss of direction, purpose or meaning in life...

Don’t make it about yourself

Don’t make your religion, your faith – your life – about you. It is a gratuitous gift from God. Don’t make your walk with the Lord about your spiritual abilities. And, for that matter, don’t make it about your miserable failings by indulging in endless...

Coming to terms with personal sin

One of the most troublesome things I observe in myself and others is the inability to to come to terms with our personal – and especially moral – weaknesses. Generally, we know the human condition is one characterized by disorder, division, imbalance.  We...

Spiritual Nutrition Versus Junk Food for the Soul

The soul wants one thing, the ego another. The soul requires essential things for its sustenance. The ego desires this and that to satisfy its appetites. There is a constant battle within us where spiritual nutrition for the soul is pitted against empty but comforting...

Time to Show Up and Be You

If we knew how much influence we truly could have, we might take God more seriously and collaborate with His plan to be who He intended us to be and be busy about His work as He intended us to carry it out. We each are a voice of the new evangelization and, if we but...

Coasting on Your Spiritual Reputation

On a regular basis we need to step outside of ourselves to see what condition our condition is in. Sometimes we bump along without getting a true picture of where we’re really headed if we were to stay on our current course – because we feel the afterglow...