It is good to read the Old Testament with Christian optics to be able to understand who Jesus is as the savior. But if we don’t go further to understand the Old Testament culture, we will lose much of what is being said there. When I was in the seminary, in a class on...
God created us with free will. The capacity to choose the path for our own lives. That means we are not obligated to unite our will or lifestyle to the will of God the Father, our creator. Hence there is a lot of evil in the world. There are many evil people, who...
Contemplating nature is a wonderful experience. Looking at the sky on a clear night is awesome. This is especially so if you are someplace where there are no electrical lights – like in a desert or a forest. That experience of God’s creation just seems to put us into...
Thomas Merton once said that each moment of every day was filled with the seeds of God’s love, seeds of God’s action, God’s presence in our lives. Unfortunately, most people wander through life as if they were blind, as Jesus says today. We do not recognize God’s...
All of us would probably say that family is our first and most important value. As human beings we need a family to survive physically through the first years of our life and we need a family to survive emotionally through the rest of our lives. So, family first is...
