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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
May 1, 2026
Beauty in Difference
We all reflect God’s love in different ways. Together we are like a mosaic.
April 30, 2026
You Belong to God
Your true identity is as a child of God. This is the identity you have to accept.
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.
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.
April 27, 2026
Going Deeper
There are many doors…. that give you chances to leave the journey.
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.
April 25, 2026
Receiving the Affection of Jesus
Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years.
April 24, 2026
Breaking Down Hierarchy
Think about Jesus. He was totally free before the authorities of his time.
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.
April 22, 2026
Your Unique Call
A new spirituality is being born in you. Not body denying or body indulging but truly incarnation.
April 21, 2026
Just Stay There
A seed only flourishes by staying in the ground in which it is sown.
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.
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.
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.