In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

Let's start with Jesus' answer: "Look for the kingdom first and all else will come together." Life is fragmenting, fragmented. I have a thousands things to do, others do too. We can live our life as if the main question is, "How can keep it together? How do I juggle all the balls? But the real question is, "How can I stay home - interiorly home - while I do these many things?

Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope.

Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.