The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself,
‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity —
greedy, dishonest, adulterous — or even like this tax collector. (Lk 18:9-14)

It sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it?…

How do you understand something?  Is it simply a matter of processing information/data through your mental faculties in such a way that your cognitive framework can make sense and assign some type of meaning to the information, much like the cataloging process of a library? …

How can love be legitimated?  Is there a law for love?  In the Christian tradition, there seem to be laws of love that go deep and involve transformation.  The beatitudes could be seen as these laws of love, but I wonder if the use of the term law itself is appropriate when speaking about love. …

Sometimes as I sit in the backyard of my home in silence, I hear the birds singing. I wonder what the songs are that they sing. What is their meaning? There is great beauty in the hearing – the songs sounds joyful and beckoning to me, and at times they also sound as yearning and even sad.…

How do we receive what we are given?  More specifically, do we view our lives as something given to us, something that we have received?  Do we experience the things in our lives (nature, relationships, the earth, the universe, prosperity, loneliness, talents, challenges, etc.)…