Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.

To forgive another from the heart is an act of liberation. We set that person free from the negative bonds that exist between us. As long as we do not forgive we pull them with us, or worse, as a heavy load. The great temptation is to cling in anger to our enemies & then define ourselves as being offended & wounded by them. Forgiveness, therefore, liberates not only the other but also ourselves. It is the way to the freedom of the children of God.

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same Spirit that inspired Jesus is inspiring us.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.