Listening to My Life...

I have had the unexpected pleasure of reconnecting lately in two different situations with some very old friends. It is surprising and wonde...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, “Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end ...

As you start your day: Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. Your right...

“The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany an...

I ran into this quote today, by Bono of U2. For more thoughts, go here : My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the pers...

This quote rung my bell today. The power of the truths expressed, and the breathtaking way Sayers crafts her sentences are both utterly st...

An outstanding quote from Henri Nouwen this morning: Waiting is essential to the spiritual life. But waiting as a disciple of Jesus is not...

Yesterday I was riding my bike and listening to my iPod on shuffle. Normally I just enjoy songs I know, think and pray about my day, make su...

I have mentioned here previously that I receive a daily passage in my email from the Henri Nouwen Society. Today's reading is downright ...

This needs no intro. Fantastic, wise, beautiful words that God used to remind me of great truth this morning. From Henri Nouwen... go to hen...

"Silence has two functions. The first effect of exterior silence is to develop a sense of interior peace. The second value of silence i...

I just read these this morning. A great balance of what it means to feed the mind and the soul: "Every logical position ... will eventu...

I read this quote this morning. I was left asking myself, "How much do I conform to the world's ideas of influence and power? How m...

Reading Chesterton's biography of St Francis in this silent hilltop cabin as I overlook Kachemak Bay and see several glaciers. I am in a...

I read this in the wee hours... "If we accept God's will in life where our will does not prevail, if we accept ourselves for what w...

This quote rumbled through me as I read it... "I do not find that this position, that of unbroken peacefulness and inward song, is one ...

"Make no doubt about it, the ability to listen to another, to sit silently in the presence of God, to give sober heed, and to ponder is...

I read this this morning, from Henri Nouwen. It rang true -- and makes me aspire to do the same. What do you think? Jesus was truly free. H...

Today in my daily bible reading, this passage flew across my radar: 1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every acti...

I feel like I heard from God this morning in a couple of nice ways... First from Henri Nouwen quote of the day: A Still Place in the Market ...