Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in God’s suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected with the greater pains of Christ. Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow and therefore a larger hope.

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

Emit gratitude as though it was done

As we read spiritually about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God's voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down the book we are reading and just listen to what God is saying to us through our words.

When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.