Podcast Episodes

The Warrior Heart

I have in my files a copy of a letter written by Major Sullivan Ballou, a Union officer in the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment. He writes to his wife on the eve of the Battle of Bull Run, a battle…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Turning from Attachment to Desire

So much of the journey forward involves a letting go of all that once brought us life. We turn away from the familiar abiding places of the heart, the false selves we have lived out, the strengths we…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Benevolent Detachment

To make room for God to fill the vessel of our soul, we have to begin moving out some of the unnecessary clutter that continually accumulates there like the junk drawer in your kitchen. Everybody has…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

It Must Be Small

When he left Rivendell, Frodo didn't head out with a thousand Elves. He had eight companions. Jesus didn't march around backed by legions of angels, either. He had twelve men—knuckleheads, every last…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Surrender

The time has come for us to quit playing chess with God over our lives. We cannot win, but we can delay the victory, dragging on the pain of grasping and the poison of possessing. You see, there are …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

How Long, O Lord?

When God comes to call Jeremiah to be his prophet of hard sayings to Judah, Jeremiah protests, saying, "'Ah, Sovereign LORD ... I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.' But the LORD said to me…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Risking Coming Home as a Son

Today’s Daily Reading is an excerpt from Morgan Snyder's book “Becoming a King”

The first doorway we must travel through on our path toward becoming a king is to choose sonship. It is a choice.

Are we …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Through the Easy and the Hard

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. —Henri J. M. Nouwen 

When I was young, I thought that following God and being a Christian would lead to a life t…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Waiting

To wait is to learn the spiritual grace of detachment, the freedom of desire. Not the absence of desire, but desire at rest. St. John of the Cross lamented that “the desires weary and fatigue the sou…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Paradise Lost

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

The woman said to the se…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago