Sunday, December 31rst: So much of our energy, time, and money goes into maintaining distance from one another. Many if not most of the resources of the world are used to defend ourselves against each other, to maintain or increase our power, and to safeguard our own privileged position. Imagine all that effort being put in the service of peace …
Saturday, December 30th: One of the hardest things in life is to let go of old hurts. We often say, or at least think: “What you did to me and my family, my ancestors, or my friends I cannot forget or forgive. … One day you will have to pay for it.” Sometimes our memories are decades, even centuries, old …
Thursday, December 28th: When we are free from the need to judge or condemn, we can become safe places for people to meet in vulnerability and take down the walls that separate them. Being deeply rooted in the love of God, we cannot help but invite people to love one another. When people realise that we have no hidden agendas …
The Task of Reconciliation Monday, December 25th — Christmas Day: What is our task in this world as children of God and brothers and sisters of Jesus? Our task is reconciliation. Wherever we go we see divisions among people – in families, communities, cities, countries, and continents. All these divisions are tragic reflections of our separation from God. The truth …
Sunday, December 24th (4th Sunday of Advent): Today we light the candle of love, to shine alongside the candles of hope, peace and joy! For God so “LOVED” the world… that He gave his only begotten Son… (john 3:16). God is still trying to love us and to love through us. To be a contemplative is to meditate on that …
Thursday, December 21rst: Some people say: “I never had an experience of the fullness of time. … I am just an ordinary person, not a mystic.” Although some people have unique experiences of God’s presence and, therefore have unique missions to announce God’s presence to the world, all of us – whether learned or uneducated, rich or poor, visible or …
Tuesday, December 19, 2017: We are in the third week of Advent, the week of joy! Thus, as we wait for God’s presence among us, we wait with hope, peace and joy because our Sovereign God has not left us without His promise, presence and power. He is always with us, and will be so tangibly soon — on Christmas …
Monday, December 18th: Yesterday, we lighted the candle of joy to shine alongside the candles of hope and peace. When you invite and receive the Holy Spirit of God into your life, Christ becomes real and God’s love transforms you, bit by bit into the image and likeness of God at the core of your being… The layers of sin …
Sunday, December 17th (Third Sunday of Advent): This is the third Sunday in Advent. Today we light the candle of joy, to shine alongside the candles of hope and peace. What is your witness? Do you testify to the joy that is known through the love of God shining over you, in you and through you in all circumstances? This …
Saturday, December 16th: Often hell is portrayed as a place of punishment and heaven as a place of reward. But this concept easily leads us to think about God as either a policeman, who tries to catch us when we make a mistake and send us to prison when our mistakes become too big, or a Santa Claus, who counts …