Everything is prayer – not just what we normally think of as prayer. Everything we do is a transaction between us and God: every interaction between ourselves and another person – every member of our family, every coworker, every poor person. We make some prayer in every task, every job, every minute of the day, not just the ones we like or enjoy. This is how we can pray continually. 

But we, as humans, tend to divide the world into good and evil. This thing is God and this thing ...  Keep reading

Fear is the great human problem. Every problem in relationship is a problem caused by fear. Our ego defenses go up because we fear that we will not be loved, wanted, valued. We constantly see threat – in our family, our friends and our enemies. That’s why the solution to our problems as humans are love, hope and faith. They are the opposite of fear. 

Sublimation of anger, difficulty, stress, and threat is really the goal. When Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, love our enemies, not repay evil for evil, and then shows us how on the cross, he is really saying that we need to sublimate anger and the impulse to retaliate. To sublimate it does not mean that you ignore the threat, but instead it means that you take it in or absorb it, and transform it into something else. And in that way, you take all its power away. On the cross, Jesus took ...  Keep reading

None of us is the purveyor of love, healing, forgiveness. I cannot hold myself out as the one who procures those things and then passes them on to you. As I am loved, healed, forgiven, you are too. Those things happen at once. 

The most difficult thing is to be present to and satisfied in the moment. We always tend to be working toward something else. But if you can stand still and be here and now, you will be blessed. That’s where the healing is. 

We often approach God as if there is some magic spell or potion that is going to get Him to come to us – like He is a genie that will appear if you just say the right words, confess your sins enough, have enough faith, do all the right things. But this is yet another wonder of Him – He is a Person who will come to you out of His own volition. He will not be bought and He is not the result of stringing the right formulas together and finally finding the right combination to open the ...  Keep reading

Faith is just waiting for God to show up. And he will.