In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

We have God's joy in our blood.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.