July 3, 2026
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July 3, 2026

God’s Home, Our Home

God is not in the distant heavens or in the hidden depths of the future, but here and now.

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July 2, 2026
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July 2, 2026

Confronting Our Fears

There is so much fear in us. Fear of people, fear of God and much raw, undefined, free-floating anxiety. I wonder if fear is not our main obstacle to prayer.

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July 1, 2026
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July 1, 2026

Truth About All Human Beings

Our many conversations led me to the inner conviction that the words “You are my Beloved” revealed the most intimate truth about all human beings, whether they belong to any particular tradition or not.

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June 30, 2026
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June 30, 2026

Faithful to Your Call

If you live a life of watching and waiting, you will know what kind of call you have.

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June 29, 2026
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June 29, 2026

The Way Out is the Way In

Christian leadership is accomplished only through service. This service requires the willingness to enter into a situation, with all the human vulnerabilities….

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June 28, 2026
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June 28, 2026

Praying to be Free

We pray to know not only in our head, but in our heart, and in the center of our being that we are fully loved. 

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June 27, 2026
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June 27, 2026

Keep Pointing to New Life

Hope makes it possible to look beyond the fulfillment of urgent wishes and pressing desires and offers a vision beyond human suffering and even death.

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June 26, 2026
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June 26, 2026

Not Forced

Jesus in his passion is the one who waits for our response. Precisely in that waiting the intensity of his love and God’s love is revealed to us.

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June 25, 2026
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June 25, 2026

Everything Holds Promise

For a man with a deep-rooted faith in the value and meaning of life, every experience holds a new promise, every encounter carries a new insight, and every event brings a new message.

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June 24, 2026
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June 24, 2026

Moving Into the Unknown

It takes courage to move away from the safe place into the unknown, even when we know that the safe place offers false safety and the unknown promises us a saving intimacy with God.

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June 23, 2026
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June 23, 2026

Standing Open to God

The heart means the core of our being. It includes the deep recesses of our psyche, our moods and feelings, our emotions and passions, and also our intuitions, insights, and visions. 

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June 22, 2026
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June 22, 2026

Live in the World as a Child of God

There is no promise that everything will be rosy.

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June 21, 2026
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June 21, 2026

One at the Wellspring of Pain and Joy

When one has the courage to enter where life is experienced as most unique and most private, one touches the soul of the community.

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June 20, 2026
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June 20, 2026

Totally Loved

When we come in touch with the first love we come in touch with the center of our being where we feel totally loved without condition or limits.

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June 19, 2026
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June 19, 2026

Being a Person of Prayer

For a man of prayer is, in the final analysis, the man who is able to recognize in others the face of the Messiah and make visible what was hidden, make touchable what was unreachable.

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June 18, 2026
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June 18, 2026

Alert to the Word of God

Our waiting is always shaped by alertness to the Word of God that comes to us in such mysterious ways.

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June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026

Come Home

Jesus is the host who wants to gather us around the table, the Good Shepherd who invites his people to a table where the cup is overflowing (Ps. 23).

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June 16, 2026
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June 16, 2026

Affecting Our Inner Life

The daily contemplation of the gospel and the attentive repetition of a prayer can both profoundly affect our inner life.

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June 15, 2026
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June 15, 2026

Looking for Signs of Hope and Promise

More than anything else, [the contemplative critic] will look for signs of hope and promise in the situation in which he finds himself….

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June 14, 2026
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June 14, 2026

Getting to the Heart of the Matter

The contemplative is not needy or greedy for human contacts, but is guided by a vision of what he has seen beyond the trivial concerns of a possessive world.

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