May 7, 2026
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May 7, 2026

God’s Gentle Guidance

Theological reflection is reflecting on the painful and joyful realities of every day with the mind of Jesus and thereby raising human consciousness to the knowledge of God’s gentle guidance.

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May 6, 2026
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May 6, 2026

Caregiving and Mutuality

To care is the most human of human gestures. It is a gesture that comes forth from a courageous confession of our common need for one another and the grace of compassion that binds us together with brothers and sisters like ourselves who share with us the wonderful and painful journey of life.

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May 5, 2026
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May 5, 2026

Christ In Us Brings Healing

To be living reminders of God, we must be concerned first of all with our own intimacy with God. 

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May 4, 2026
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May 4, 2026

Seeing in a New Light

When Christian community provides sacred space and times for discernment, we will gradually be lifted up into God’s dwelling place and come to see ourselves, our neighbors, and our world in a new light.

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May 3, 2026
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May 3, 2026

Dancing Toward Healing

When our needs lead us to grab desperately for a place, when our unhealed wounds determine the atmosphere around us, we become anxious.

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May 2, 2026
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May 2, 2026

Unmasking Power Games

A theology of weakness is a theology that shows a God weeping for the human race entangled in its power games and angry that these same power games are so greedily used by so-called religious people. 

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May 1, 2026
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May 1, 2026

Beauty in Difference

We all reflect God’s love in different ways. Together we are like a mosaic. 

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April 30, 2026
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April 30, 2026

You Belong to God

Your true identity is as a child of God. This is the identity you have to accept.

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April 29, 2026
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April 29, 2026

When the Body Says No

When you get exhausted, frustrated, overwhelmed, or rundown, your body is saying that you are doing things that are none of your business.

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April 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026

Absence is Not Destructive

When the place where God dwells in you is intimately connected with the place where God dwells in the other, the absence of the other person is not destructive.

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April 27, 2026
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April 27, 2026

Going Deeper

There are many doors…. that give you chances to leave the journey.

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April 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026

Seeing Jesus in Your True Self

You complain that it is hard for you to pray, to experience the love of Jesus. But Jesus dwells in your fearful, never fully received self.

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April 25, 2026
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April 25, 2026

Receiving the Affection of Jesus

Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years.

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April 24, 2026
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April 24, 2026

Breaking Down Hierarchy

Think about Jesus. He was totally free before the authorities of his time.

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April 23, 2026
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April 23, 2026

A Task of the Heart

The spiritual task is not to escape your loneliness, not to let yourself drown in it, but to find its source.

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April 22, 2026
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April 22, 2026

Your Unique Call

 A new spirituality is being born in you. Not body denying or body indulging but truly incarnation.

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April 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026

 Just Stay There

A seed only flourishes by staying in the ground in which it is sown. 

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April 20, 2026
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April 20, 2026

A Beautiful Self

God has given you a beautiful self. There God dwells and loves you with the first love, which precedes all human love. 

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April 19, 2026
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April 19, 2026

The New Place

You have to begin to trust that your experience of emptiness is not the final experience, that beyond it is a place where you are being held in love. 

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April 18, 2026
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April 18, 2026

Rest in God’s Peace

Your main question should always be whether something is lived with or without God. You have your own inner knowledge to answer that question.

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