Today, our Lord invites us to see ourselves as God sees us–valued for who we are not just on account of what we do, but almost in spite of what we do. For God sees our value despite our flaws and weaknesses. He requires neither witty captions nor filtered selfies…

While the disciples on the road to Emmaus were recounting and remembering all that Jesus taught them, that the Risen Lord came to meet and join them along the way. And so I am hoping that by remembering my consolation moments, I am also setting myself up to be surprised…

Love, not fearful paranoia, not angry recklessness; love that gives others life and has them live that life to the full. That way, whether we live or die, our love, like the Lord’s, will have been truly saving.

If you are sad or angry, talk to him in sadness and even in anger. Try to voice out your feelings and your thoughts and your preliminary ways of making sense of all of this. Then just be silent with him. Let him maybe get a word in. Let this…

Should we stop striving for more? No. God wants us to be more compassionate, exercise more self-control, be more selfless, have more friends. God desires that we love people more than control them, forgive more than take greater offense, offer more apologies than demand them, value friendships more than our…

Jesus’ last word on the cross: “Tetelestai.” It does not just sound like teleios; both words actually have the same root and revolve around the same ambit of meaning: “Completed.” Being complete is not sitting comfortably on a throne being adored. Being complete is hanging beaten and bloodied on the…

If our hearts lustfully objectify others, then we’ve been abusing our freedom and inching ever so carefully to adultery. We may not have committed perjury, but if we are insincere with our words and two-faced with our relationships, then we might as well be calling ourselves “pretty little liars.”

What you may see in Scripture is not always what I will see. What you and I are going through are different. Scripture can hit us personally if we allow it not just to scratch the surface but cut us and wound us… then heal us and give us new…

While the capacity to reflect gives our human responses the potential for depth, consequence, commitment, the reflective moment can also give occasion to cowardice,to justification and compromise, because reflectiveness can also take away spontaneity and instinctive response.