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Dear People Whom God Loves, We will now look at Jesus as bridge.  God made this bridge by the Incarnation that we celebrate every Christmas.  God enters into humanity in Jesus and, in a mysterious way, lives humanly.  This blows my mind.  It seems too good to be true.  Yet it is at the core […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, I write this series of columns not as a professional theologian or a scripture scholar.  I write this from my own religious studies, but much more, from my own spiritual journey including 60 years of being with people as a priest.  This is not more than that.  It also is […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Please relect on the following quotation.  The quotes are found in the book Prayerfulness by Robert J. Wicks.  They are on page 64 It is a response by a Vietnamese monk to this question: “Why do you meditate?” He answers in almost perfect English, “I meditate to be happy.  When […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, A major part of Jesus’ life was the healing of wounds…spiritual, mental, and physical.  I remind you of the healing mission of Project Rachel.  I invite you to consider whether this would be helpful to you. Project Rachel is the Catholic Church’s outreach for confidential ministry for anyone who desires […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, We have seen how religion can (but doesn’t have to) block us from the “letting go” that the second part of our life/spiritual journey requires. The other two blocks are wealth and power.  We do need some limited control of our lives.  We don’t forget the lessons of the first […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, We continue with the story that Jesus told about the Pharisee and the tax collector who went to the temple to pray.  The Pharisee prayed by thanking God that he was not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, adulterers, or this tax collector.  He then recites all his virtues. […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, One of the things which can push us into the second half of our life/spiritual journey is sin.  This comes with the pain of facing how we have hurt other people and in the process how we have hurt ourselves.  This pain can force us to our knees and push […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, We continue reflecting on our resistance to entering the second journey that we are called to in the second part of life.  Richard Rohr writes of religion and wealth as hindrances.   I would add a third…power (control).  The second journey requires letting go.  These three often block us from letting […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, I am reading the introduction to Falling Upward  by Richard Rohr.  The thoughts in this series of columns are inspired by this introduction with some of my own thoughts as well.  I can’t wait to read the rest of the book. Richard writes about the two halves of the spiritual […]