How few there are who accept failure and weakness, who are content to see themselves on the ground and to be found there by others.
Category: Faith & Spiritual
In the fire
What does it say about the state of my soul when your love burns me like fire? Your kisses crucify me and your embrace send me into agony. It is not God’s will that a soul be disturbed by anything or suffer trials, for if one suffers trials in the adversities of the world it […]
Pitching tents
It’s that time of the year again. In a week’s time it will be the Sec 4 Confirmation Retreat for our parish. Every year, this weekend retreat is the spiritual highlight for many of our youth – both retreatants and service team members. For many of them, it will be at this weekend that they […]
Meeting Christ Outside a Brothel
Every time I visit my grandmother, I have to walk past brothels. My grandma has lived in that neighbourhood for nearly 60 years, long before it became a red light district. She cannot bear to move, and so I have gotten rather accustomed to ignoring the rows of men that line the street in her […]
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During the Eucharistic Prayer He asked me, “What grace would you like to ask for? I will give it to you.” Just like He had asked Solomon. I must ask wisely. “Wait,” I told myself. “Don’t be hasty. This is important.” As I went up for Communion, it suddenly hit me. THIS was my birthday […]
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament… There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death: by the divine paradox, that which ends […]
To the brim
“Do whatever he tells you,” Mary said. And when Jesus asked them to fill the jars with water, they filled it to the brim. Do I go the distance? When I say, “Your will be done,” do I really mean totally and completely? Totus tuus. Yes, fill me, Lord. Your will be done. To […]
Tasteless
It has been like this for some time, I cannot remember how long now. This strange, unfamiliar yet growing sense that I am losing my taste for things. My senses, when it comes to most external things, seem to be getting duller. More and more I prefer silence and rest to stimulation and excitement. And […]
God communicates his love in both silence and the Word. We behold the Word in the silence of our hearts.
Mirror Mirror
On the way to a wedding dinner, Henry and I came face to face with a huge mirror which made us look much taller and slimmer than we were. “Wow!” I exclaimed as I admired my reflection. “Look how tall and slim I am. I love this mirror!” “There’s one problem though,” my wise […]
Journey of the Heart 