Category: Travelers
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Letting Go & Spirituality
Attachment is necessary and desirable in life. Our human experience and condition, of frailty and weakness, and of relational longing and desire for union, means that we naturally and necessarily seek healthy bonds in life. The crucial question is to what or to whom should we be attached, and its corollary, from what and who…
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Love and Sadness
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. Matthew 23:37 To love is to choose a certain type of suffering, or to say it differently, to…
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All We Don’t Know
Something curious about the story of Job is that the supposed cause of all his troubles is a wager between God and Satan about whether Job will remain faithful if he suffers. What’s striking is that this crucial “behind the scenes” detail is never revealed to Job. He lives and suffers without access to the…
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Spiritual Ambition
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. Philippians 2:3-4 Paul could have said “fleshly ambition” instead of “selfish ambition,” and it would have been wholly consistent with how he often…
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Hidden Spirituality
Do we know if we are spiritual? Yes, in the sense that being spiritual is our natural and created vocation. We are made for relationships with one another, with all creation, with God in and through everything else, and even ourselves. We have the capacity and are oriented for a spiritual walk in life, and…
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Describing Spirituality
In the scriptures, spiritual maturity is compared to seeing rather than blindness (John 9:39). It is described as being awake instead of asleep (Ephesians 5:14), in the light as opposed to in darkness (Ephesians 5:8-9), and alive rather than dead (Romans 8:10). Among the many metaphors, it is also to be well-watered instead of parched…