When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.

Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not try to pull us away from the many events, activities, and people that make up our lives. . . . He asks us to shift the point of gravity, to relocate the center of our attention, to change our priorities. Jesus does not speak about a change of activities, a change in contacts, or even a change of pace. He speaks about a change of heart.

Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a total belonging, to full intimacy, to an unlimited being-with. The light of the Spirit reveals to us that love conquers all fear.

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.