Quite interestingly, in the tradition of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, it is said that after the death of Jesus, Jewish and Roman authorities sought to obscure or cover up the tomb of Christ in an effort to disavow the claims of the followers of Christ. …

As I am sitting her writing this meditation in the darkness before dawn, I am watching the waning crescent of the moon growing in brilliance just above the mountains surrounding Albuquerque.  From my hotel window, I have watched this one beautiful mountain emerge from the darkness each morning before dawn. …

Many of us can recall a time when we had a peak spiritual experience.  It may have been a great sermon that we heard in church that resonated throughout our heart and mind as if God were speaking directly to us. …

When Israel was a child I loved him,
out of Egypt I called my son.
The more I called them,
the farther they went from me…
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk,
who took them in my arms;
I drew them with human cords,
with bands of love;
I fostered them like one
who raises an infant to his cheeks;
Yet, though I stooped to feed my child,
they did not know that I was their healer.…

“…If you wish fully to realize yourselves, beware above all of everything that isolates, that refuses to accept and that divides.  Each along your own line, let your thought and action be ‘universal’…And tomorrow, maybe, you will find that all opposition has disappeared and you can ‘love one another.’…