Posts in Spirituality

This can’t be what extraordinary looks like, I think. But it can. And it’s the holding out for something so perfectly special that keeps me from missing what’s right before me.

“Living in an old house, like listening to old music, reminds me that I’m part of something greater than I am, something broader.”

Finding one of his heroes at a quiet, Saturday morning mass spurs Joe Simmons’ thoughts on friendship, imagination and spiritual equality.

I did not call up my formerly-very-good-friends because I was more or less paralyzed by one question: how long is too long before giving up hope of reconnecting?

Too often, in the name of efficiency or convenience, we avoid the costs of intimacy, and in doing so we pay a steep price. But what we buy is freedom from the pain of intimacy, not an actual experience of it.

Is Pope Francis lowering the bar for believers by saying that even atheists are redeemed? Joe Simmons takes stock of the fearful answers given by the indignant voices inside us.

Yes, she was asking about regulations and rules. But as I sat with it, I realized that she was really asking about how she and her family could be with God.

We confuse ourselves into thinking that we make the world go ‘round, and in this confusion we run ourselves into the ground while life springs forth without our doing anything at all. It just happens.

A few weeks ago I got a glimpse of the pride – and protectiveness – a parent might feel for her child. It felt awesome.