Julian of Norwich: Revealing Divine Love
I’m not a sports fan, but I’m a sucker for the Olympic Games. Except for the artistic events like ice-skating and gymnastics, the Olympics themselves…
god is love
Why Does God Love Us All So Much?
God loves us because God IS love — infinite and perfect love, greater than any love that we can imagine. Our human ability to love…
God is love, but get it in writing. — Gypsy Rose Lee
Look around right now. Where do you see God’s love?
Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love. — Pope Benedict XVI
How are you called to be converted today?
What Works: Building Up Others
In preparing to give a presentation on the structures of faith communities, I was just reading 1 Corinthians 12-14. You may, like me, be familiar…
My mama told me when I was young
We are all born superstars
She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir
“There’s nothing wrong with loving who you are”
She said, “‘Cause he made you perfect, babe”
“So hold your head up girl and you’ll go far,
Listen to me when I say”
I’m beautiful in my way
‘Cause God makes no mistakes
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this way
— Lady Gaga, “Born This Way”
We are all born superstars
She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir
“There’s nothing wrong with loving who you are”
She said, “‘Cause he made you perfect, babe”
“So hold your head up girl and you’ll go far,
Listen to me when I say”
I’m beautiful in my way
‘Cause God makes no mistakes
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this way
— Lady Gaga, “Born This Way”
God loves us! Share God’s love with someone else today — give an affirmation (nice sweater!) or simply tell someone, “God loves you.”
Is Harry Potter Christian?
Today brings the final book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, to a close as the last 250 pages will…
“Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.” — Pope Benedict XVI
Fast from your image of God as a judge. Pray to God for guidance in leading you to be all that you can be. Give…
“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.”
Answer the question: Is there anything in your life you would die for? Why?
For I Was Ill and You Cared For Me
People of faith are not of one political party or the other — not all conservative or all progressive, all right or all left. But most people of faith believe as a core principle that we should love one another and care for one another — that this is how we express Divine Love.
