transformation – Feel with Neil

Are people really doing the best they can do?

The ego can’t abide the mystery in, “I don’t know. I really don’t.”

We are forgiven because we are first loved (1)

“although he knew he was a great sinner, he also knew that Jesus loved him completely, as he was”

How enormous I, and you, are

What occurs to me more and more often is how enormous I am. How much power I have in my own little world. How much potential I have that I myself do not even recognize and I am not aware of. More and more, it is astounds me how enormous my power is. My youngestContinue reading “How enormous I, and you, are”

Neil’s Emmanuel Prayer for Neil

My Sweet and All-Merciful Lover, By Your freely-given grace that has seen me through all things, and always will, I will pour out what You have filled my heart with, in the staggering certainty of faith. When the anxious, fearful, and ashamed Neil rises up in me today, as he surely will, fill me withContinue reading “Neil’s Emmanuel Prayer for Neil”

Suffering demands a fix. We lie to ourselves

Every act you have performed to alleviate suffering in the world amounts to sacrificing something of yourself.

Spiritual Journey Nonsense (Richard Rohr)

Those calming, wise people… they speak by *listening*