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“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…

“I no longer call you disciples, but friends.”  Jesus “A bosom friend—an intimate friend, you know—a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.”  Anne of Green Gables What’s one of your favorite activities? Mine is spending time with my daughters.  I have been blessed with four of the best!  Last weekend…

“Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it cannot bear fruit.”  Jesus in John 12:24 “We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not then until we have been dead years and years.  People ought to start dead and they would be honest so…

“I tell you the truth, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain ‘move’, and it will move.  Nothing will be impossible for you.”  Jesus “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone upon the ocean and create a ripple.”  Mother Teresa Small…

“I proclaim to you that which is of most importance . . .” St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 15. “Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.” Henri Nouwen “What’s in your wallet?”  A familiar question from the Capitol…

“Whoever desires to save their life will lose it.”  Jesus in The Gospel According to Matthew “Do you hear the love that’s falling from my eyes?” Lucinda Drayton That question.  The one that serves as the title for this meditation.  That question.  It’s a hard one.  It is not only difficult, it is discomforting.  That…