I had a deep experience of God's love for me.

Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

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.

I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence.

To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.