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“As much as you have done it unto the least of these My brethren, you have done it unto Me.” “Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.” I almost never watch TV and seldom read the news.  Both are toxic to the soul.  For me it’s like intentionally visiting a waste disposal…

“You shall love God . . . and love your neighbor as yourself” Jesus the Christ “I found the greatest love of all inside of me . . . learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all”  Whitney Houston It’s true, what Whitney sang.  I wonder, did she believe it?   If she did…

“Just as I Am . . .”  Amazing Grace “Be Yourself . . . Everyone else is already taken.” “I Am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.”  Psalm 139 This last week I watched “The Master” staring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Juaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams.  They are all amazing at their craft.  They are the type of…

“Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs, appearing beautiful on the outside but filled with dead bones on the inside.” Jesus the Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 23 Hypocrite: From the Greek “hypokrites” meaning “actor” or “one who wears a mask”. My dear mother Jean recounted the…

“A sword shall pierce your soul . . .”  Simeon to Mary “The Way reveals His love by giving hope where this no hope.  The Way reveals Himself, but only in a reign of stillness, when the soul is alone, imprisoned in the heart, seeking Him alone in her pain.”  Christ the Eternal Tao There…

“Though He was in the very nature of God, He did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but rather divested Himself of all privilege . . . and humbled Himself and became obedient even unto the point of death.”  (Philippians 2) “When you have descended into the valley with Him, and with…

“Clothe yourselves with humility . . .  God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 1 Peter 5 What does it mean to be broken?  When have you been broken?  What is it that broke you?  Was it some unexpected tragedy in life?  Was it the overwhelming sense of grief at the death…

David loved Jonathon as a brother In about four hours I’m going to pick Ernie up from the airport.  He’s flying in from Chicago to spend a few days with me, and then we’ll head to the Wind River Range in Wyoming for a week of back country hiking and camping.  Ernie is 81 years…

“For Freedom Christ has set us free.”  St. Paul “Martha, Martha, you are distracted by many things.  One thing is needed.”  Jesus Slavery vs. Freedom.  Sin vs. Salvation.  Bondage vs. Blessing.  All pertinent and relevant topics not only on this Fourth of July weekend, but throughout the history of humanity.  When considering these topics in…

“We need to learn . . . that we can assist the least desirable people with tenderness, using the deepest Treasures of our being. In this way we can touch eternity.” Taken from “The Tao Te Ching and the Christian Way” by Joseph Petulla The question posed above of Jesus by the expert in the…