You find love when you are focused on another. Whether it is kissing your wife as she sleeps and you slip out of bed to make breakfast for her, or it is in more severe circumstances and you sacrifice yourself so another can live, love is found when we do…
“I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.” Thomas Merton There are a million infomercials, motivational speakers, and advertisements that will tell you differently, but this is truth “I cannot…
Posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD is the “…development of characteristic symptoms….”. The key word there from the DSM-V is development. PTSD develops. I like to think of it as being broken. Life can break us in a million different ways and when that brokenness happens to meet the criteria in…
“Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.” Thomas Merton This past weekend I met a young man who was born in Iraq and is now a freshman at the University of Michigan studying neuroscience. He is a Christian, a threatened belief in the Middle…
I’d just gotten a new camera and even though it was near the end of November we were greeted with an unusually warm and sunny day. As I was checking out my new image taker my oldest daughter, Mary Inger, put on a coat and said, “daddy, come take my…
Christian Monasticism began to flourish in the desert of Egypt. It was here monks left the world to focus their life on prayer. They didn’t necessarily see it as an escape. It was more than just leaving the “world”. For many, it was the best place to pray for the…
