For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. — Jeremiah 29:11. “For surely I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord in Jeremiah 29:11, “plans for your welfare and not for harm, to…
A Challenge
The threshold of Holy Week draws near. Soon, palms will stir in our hands, a joyful echo before the silence of Good Friday descends. For some, the nearing close of Lent may bring a sigh of relief; for others, a yearning to deepen the disciplines embraced. Each journey, distinct yet sacred, guides us toward its…
Costly Grace
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s assertion that “Grace is free, but not cheap; the cost is nothing less than everything” remains a piercing critique of a diluted faith. His seminal work, The Cost of Discipleship, masterfully unpacks the nature of “cheap grace”—a grace divorced from the demanding call to follow Christ. As Bonhoeffer eloquently argues, this counterfeit grace…
Uncertainty
Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore no need for faith. Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who doubts. And let him grant us a Pope who sins and asks…
Illnesses
Then we will discover that our faithfulness to a small task is the most healing response to the illnesses of our time. — Henri Nouwen. Nouwen’s assertion that “our faithfulness to a small task is the most healing response to the illnesses of our time” prompts: what exactly are the illnesses plaguing our contemporary world? I…