The War Against the Flesh
Brethren, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And t...
Tag: Spirituality
What Motivates Your Life?
In a previous essay I spent some time with the subject of the purpose of our being. I turned to the book by Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, to pull out s...
The Healing Power of the Church
The Gospel passage for this past Sunday came from the 8th chapter of St. Mark’s Gospel and is the story of Jesus healing the servant of the centurion. T...
The Purpose of our Being
One of the question I hear most as a spiritual director is, “What is my purpose in life?” Finding our meaning can be a struggle, and it may take us a li...
The Destructive Nature of Gossip
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another speaks evil against the law and judges the la...
The Problem with Pride
As someone involved in the spiritual direction and guiding others along the spiritual path, I often get the question about pride. We hear that pride is dangero...
Ministry of Presence
Much of what we do as clergy can get lost in the sameness of life. The humdrum of life marches every forward moving us along with it. Sometimes we go from mee...
Acceptance does not mean approval
Over the past few months, I have been meditating on this idea of acceptance as it relates to other people and how, as a Christian, I should be thinking a...
Having Eyes, They See Not
This past week we were present with the Gospel story of the man who was born blind (John 9:1-38). In this story, we see Jesus healing them man by placing the c...
4 Key Concepts of Spiritual Resiliency
We began this series with and essay outlining the 4 Dimensions of Spiritual Resiliency and then outlined the 12 Questions for Spiritual Awareness. In this essa...