Many years ago, I went through inner healing with a spiritual director to rid myself of a block in my spiritual life – unforgiveness. I wanted to grow spiritually, but was unable to due to this obstacle. I wanted to experience the fullness of God’s peace, which He gives so freely to those who op...

 It’s 2am, I think, and like most other nights I can’t sleep. So what do I decide to do? I decide to surf the web..hmm. What to read? What to read? Obama and his budget plans..nah too heavy. Watch past American Idol reject videos on You Tube..nah too funny. Read about Rihanna and Chris ...

(From the diaries. A great book-end to another piece on the formation of a Truth Commission by David/Kagro earlier today. SusanG) "Truth and reconciliation" has a pleasant, post-partisan, get-it-all-behind-us allure to it. With its ties to those icons of resistance and justice Nelson Mandela and Des...

So  Rihanna doesn’t know if she wants to pursue charges against Chris Brown for beating her up and is suffering from depression and conflicting emotions after watching the implosion of his career over the last few days. Hopefully her wavering demonstrates, for the world to see, how tough...

Window in the Skies is becoming one of my favorite U2 songs.  I don’t own the CD single.  But it pops up periodically on my Slacker Radio stations.  While working on other matters, the words seep into my soul.  That’s is what is getting to me.  Other songs of theirs are much better ...

In a Los Angeles Times article reviewing the recent lifting of excommunication of four Lefebvreite bishops, Timothy Rutten concludes: Confession, 1862 Buy From Art.com Whatever the motive, unless Lefebvreites abjure their views on religious liberty and anti-Semitism, it would be a huge mistake for t...

Inspiring, admired pulpit orator or street-level change agent? OUT OF THE PULPIT. Most images of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday the nation observes today, depict the pastor/civil rights leader behind a pulpit or before a great throng of adoring people. But I prefer the more rare pi...

I got an email about a web site called KeysOfPeter.org with a feature called Popes' Quotes . Here's a rather poignant one: "The Christ who calls us to the Eucharist banquet is always the same Christ who exhorts us to penance." (Redemptor Hominis 20, Pope John Paul II, March 4, 1979)...

Hello Friends, It is time for us to get back to being the people that God has purposed and destined for us to be. The bible shares many examples of how Jesus and the apostles led their lives and it states that we as believers are to use those examples to show us how to live the life God has planned ...

1 John 3:22 - 4:6 Matthew 4:12-17. 23-25 It’s kind of hard to get back into the habit of writing daily reflections, after having taken a break from it for so long. Two main things happened over the past weekend that come to mind when I reflect on today’s readings. The first thing that ca...