Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to..

Courage encourages courage..

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and m….

Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a un….

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets..

Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, ne….

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God..

The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disru….

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life..

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God..

Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about..

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolousl….

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children..

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity..

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting..

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest..