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.…
DIVINE RECEIVER
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.)…
HEALING’S FURY
When we think of a prophet, we may think of someone who can foresee and foretell the future. We also may consider them to be heralds of peace and prosperity or doom and gloom. Prophets are sometimes viewed as spectacular figures, known for eye-popping signs that provide extraordinary passageways into ordinary life and into the future.…
WITHOUT A BUCKET
The Gospel story of Jesus’ encounter with the woman of Samaria in John’s gospel has always been one of my favorites (Jn 4:5-42). Each time I hear it, another wondrous slice of wisdom seems to emerge. As the story goes, Jesus and his disciples are traveling through Samaria, and just around lunch time, they come to a well, which is just outside of the town named Sychar.…
JUST RESENTMENT
After years of hearing the popular parable of what is known as The Prodigal Son, currently, two particular lines strike me the most:
“… the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country.”
“ While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him…”
Distance is a peculiar phenomenon, especially nowadays when technology has allowed us to, so to speak, ‘bridge the distance’ between places and people. …