There is no necessary correlation between the amount of time a person spends in church or being involved in church activities and the quality of his/her personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Parents – I think you should know – that having your child spend more time in church does not necessarily decrease the chances of […]
Category: Faith & Spiritual
Learning to begin again (and again… and again)
I admire the beauty of mastery greatly. Whether it be watching Gordon Ramsay fillet a salmon, or Michael Phelps swim, or Mikhail Baryshnikov defy gravity on the stage, or listening to Yo-Yo Ma play the haunting scores of Ennio Morricone, I love to witness mastery in motion. I don’t particularly enjoy watching the fumbling attempts […]
Off the pedestal and into the soil
Humility is a rare virtue among the accomplished. It is also rare among the spiritually converted. There seems to be built deep into our psyche the desire to be all that we believe others want us to be. When we are faced with a demanding boss or parent, we often find ourselves pedalling harder than ever […]
Caution: God at work
Be careful when you ask God to do whatever he wishes in order to make you ready for union with him because HE WILL DO IT. And nothing that he does will be what you could expect or predict or even prepare yourself for. Fortunately, the Holy Spirit prepares you for it, though whether or not […]
3 Common Mistakes in Discipleship
It seems to me that there are three ways in which we often err in following God: 1) We fail to keep our hearts quietly focused on God at all times, 2) We fail to move when He moves, and 3) We move before God asks us to. 1) When our hearts are not focused on God The […]
The strange thrill of obedience
In my last blog entry I shared that I have accepted that God created me a free spirit. And that is true. I had long denied my deep need for freedom to be who I am because I did not trust my desire for freedom. I did not trust my emotions. I did not trust my own […]
So this is me…
As I reflected on what 2015 has meant to me, I realised that this is the year that I reaped the fruits of the difficult years of growth before it. After a much needed year of sabbatical, I began to be able to piece together what I have learned about myself in the previous 6 years […]
Befriending loneliness
Loneliness – I still have it from time to time. But I’m not afraid of it anymore. I have realised that it is a threshold. Instead of running away from it, I can go towards it, welcome it, embrace it, and walk through it. When I cross the threshold of loneliness, I enter into Solitude […]
5 Traits of Highly Effective Evangelisers
The truth is that not all evangelising efforts are effective, and not everyone who sets out to evangelise is spiritually fruitful. Frequently, we attempt to look for external reasons for why our efforts do not give us the results we seek. It is all too easy to forget that when it comes to evangelisation, it […]
My great “little” friend in heaven
St. Thérèse of Lisieux as a child I cannot choose a favourite among the saints. They come to me in my hour of need bringing their vast array of gifts as our Lord commands, and by their lives, teachings, and prayers, they each bring me great encouragement and inspiration that cannot be duplicated by another. I have […]
Journey of the Heart 