Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and excessive dependence upon words to communicate. Try to find new ways to relate to tohers that are not dependent upon words. Enjoy, savor the day. Learn from it.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.