Archive for November 2025

“Love the Lord with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your mind.” Jesus of Nazareth “It is in and through your body that your soul becomes visible and real for you.  Your body is the home of your soul on earth.”  John O’Donahue Gnosticism.  Have you heard that word?  It refers broadly…

“What benefit is there in gaining everything in the world, but losing your soul?” Jesus of Nazareth “To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul.” John O’Donahue “The soul did not invent itself.  It is a presence from the divine world,…

“I no longer call you servants, but friends.”  Jesus “In everyone‘s life there is a need for an ‘anam cara’, a soul friend—who reflects the eternal interflow of friendship.”  John O’Donahue[i] “Who is your best friend?” That was the question posed by a friend recently.  It gave me pause. My mind did a quick life…

“Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven to earth come down.”  “The soul needs love as much as the body needs air.”  John O’Donahue[1] The universe is comprised of darkness and light.  Light is energy.  God is light.  God is mystery.  Next to God, the greatest mystery in this life is love. O’Donahue begins…

“The darkness shall not hide from You; the night shines as the day.  The darkness and light are both the same to You.”  Psalm 139 “We need a light that has retained its kinship with the darkness. For we are sons and daughters of the darkness and of the light.”  John O’Donahue[i] We are moving…