Are you perpetually getting ready? Always looking ahead, preparing for the next event, the next project, the next vacation, the next thing you think you need to do? The great waiting seasons of the church — Advent and Lent — raise preparation to a high art form. It takes constant reminders to ourselves to come into the present, to be mindful of where and what we are in the moment. Or as Father Greg Boyle would say, “Now. Here. This.”
The events of Holy Week reveal the complexity of human nature – of how loyalty and treachery, callousness and tenderness can live side by side in people’s hearts.
read moreThe spirit lives
in the vast emptiness,
in silence,
in formlessness,
INTRODUCTION
Who are we? Jesus responded to the Jews preparing to stone him: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?'” John 10:34
