Richard Rohr writes, “We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness.” The apostle Paul helps us understand, “The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because…
The conversion and transformation of my heart and mind to Christ is a moment-by-moment process of letting go of my self-centered thoughts and replacing them with God-focused thoughts. As I become fully conscious and aware of Christ living in me, I mindfully release the control of my self-conscious way of life back to God. I…
The essence of life is not what I do but who I am. “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalms. 46:10) revolutionized my spiritual life as it transformed my understanding of knowing God intimately. I had never focused on what the “be” described. The “be” is my life centered in the Eternal Now…
When I focus on the future, hoping it will bring satisfaction and meaning, I might be chasing ghosts. But unfortunately, the future is an illusion that resides only in the fantasy of my mind. Therefore, I will never experience the excitement of being fully alive by continually focusing and longing for the future. The present…
Richard Rohr understands a timeless truth, if not now, when? “The way you are is the way you will be. How you do life today is how you will probably do life tomorrow. If you are unhappy today, you will likely be unhappy tomorrow.” It is essential to understand you will never be any more…
The mystery of life is the belief we exist autonomous of everything in the world and the possibility of a God transcending our world and the universe. The Christian faith teaches I am spiritually blind and believe the world centers around me; I am unaware of God’s presence and love. Salvation is the gift of…
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord…
Lord, I offer myself to you. However, honestly, that is not my first desire. My ego would rather flee from your presence. My prayer is to help me see you and convince my heart to seek you to spend time alone with you. Let me dwell in the goodness of your love. Let me hide…
There are buzz words that stir me to question the validity of your walk with Christ. When hearing particular phrases, I stop listening to you and start judging your heart. Your interpretation of being a Christian is suspect to the scripture I hold dear, and I need to warn and advise you to escape the…
Life is one continuous moment, one moment after another moment, uninterrupted until we die. Our life adventure consists of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and the years unraveling at an alarming speed. I ask you, “What is the most significant moment you experienced today or last week? Are you aware of anything that you…
Letting go of the voices in my head is the pathway to inner peace and the presence of God. Always thinking about my problems is part of the problem of comprehending the voice of God within me. A newspaper once asked a question, “What’s wrong with the world today?” and a reply came back, “Dear…
The Genesis narrative is paradise lost. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents the tree of “self-knowledge,” which separates us from the Creator of life. In the narrative, we become like God, knowing and experiencing life from a god-like perspective. Humanity now searches for the meaning of life through personal experience and…