Spirituality of the Heart

There is nothing in this beautiful but broken world that does not have the breath of God in it, absolutely nothing! God is without and within and gives love and life to everything. If I’m separated from my sisters and brothers or indeed the birds and the bees, I’m separated from God. If I want to get fully connected to God, I must seek that connection through the other, every other.     

Belonging: Get Connected! 

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — Mother Teresa. High or low, black or white, gay or straight, we are all creations of God and thus connected. I don’t mean just with our besties, or nearest and dearest. The interconnection runs much deeper to […]

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Heaven on Earth

Heaven is Just a New Pair of Glasses

There is an anecdote told in a book by a sober booze hound called Chuck C, about an hour he spent over coffee with an old Jesuit priest that profoundly changed his view about where to find God. As they sat talking, the old mystic took to silent pondering and began cleaning his well-aged spectacles

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Spirituality of the heart

Softening of the heart: The extraordinary in the ordinary! 

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. – Charlotte Bronte I know only too well what it’s like to live with a heart like a stone! Utterly snared by what some of my friends on the journey call the bondage of self.

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Finding God in all things

Time takes time in the God Game

What do we want? Answers? When do we want them? Now! We can all fall hook-line-and-sinker for the seductive modern urge for quick fixes and simple answers. Just “google it,” comrade, and hey-presto, the answer is yours for the taking. The spiritual realm has its own version of the quick fix game. This usually presents as this or that fella, from

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