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Dear People Whom God Loves, In our quest to be human, we turn now to greed. Greed  The first thing that comes to my mind is hoarding money and possessions.  That is a good place to start.  We usually hoard in our effort to feel secure.  We believe that this will make us happy.  (I […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, We have been looking at us humans.  Rather than saying “either/or” we are looking at us as angel and beast.  We last looked at anger.  We now look at: Lust  Lust, just like anger, is good.  It also can lead us into behavior that is harmful.  Part of our human […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Let us begin the journey of recognizing the beast within us.  It is helpful to me to realize that every part of the beast is in me.  It is a part of being a human being.  Recognizing and acknowledging its presence in me (though I am blind a lot of […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, We continue with our reflection on us humans.  We are neither angel or beast.  We are both.  If we strive to be an angel, we will end up being a beast.  We will then become blind to our beast part and in our smugness and arrogance, we will be without […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, When we speak of the spiritual journey to which we are all called, we can find it confusing.  Perhaps that is because of the word “spiritual.”  We are accustomed to think in terms of dualism.  That is, we tend to think in terms of either/or, black or white, good or […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, When I was a freshman in high school, I had an elderly lady as our Latin teacher.  All of us in our great adolescent wisdom thought she was completely out of it.  We gave no heed to the things she said. I do remember two things that she said.  One […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Two monologues means that two people (or groups)state their position as clearly as possible to each other.  This is an advance over the subtle or not so subtle stating of our position by expressing only what we think will win the argument and is not entirely what we think or […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Is my house built on sand or on rock?  I am referring to my belief house, my intellectual house, my values house. From my perspective I see that the rock of my house is the belief and conviction that I am understood and loved by Love (God) just as I […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Holy Mystery  This is the phrase the great German theologian Karl Rahner used to point to God.  He is emphatic that we can’t prove the existence of God.  But he uses this phrase to show a reasonable foundation for our belief in God. Rahner starts by looking at us human […]