I Can Work with That
An expression that came to me years ago, and that I have polished with use over time is the simple statement, “I can work with that.” I imagined initially and have even come to believe…
Be patient
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now…
Prayer of Teilhard de Chardin
Patient Trust Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on…
A Prayer of Unknowing
by Thomas Merton My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I…
Jesus Red and White
We did not give you an “artificial Jesus” even, (an unkindness too mild for mission); we gave you a dangerous one, no two-edged sword of truth coming out of his mouth but a dagger in…