Monthly Archives: August 2023

God beyond our sanctuary

When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do […]

Addressing an epidemic of loneliness

Last week, I asked you to reflect deeply about what you’re truly hungry for in life, not your trendy or transient cravings but the deep hunger that binds you to God, the human hunger we all share and that makes us one with the whole human family. What are you really and deeply hungry for […]

Are you hungry?

Earlier this year, many of you shared with me your greatest hope. One of you said it was to give the best of yourself to those in need. For another, it was that your daughters “live a happy life by following their hearts.” Someone’s hope was “release from injustices and abuse,” and for another it […]