For me, ”mindwalking” is always a surprise. It keeps me thinking!
I never know where the surprise is hiding. I rarely end up where I thought I was going.
Today’s surprise was connecting the “mindwalkng” process with what seems to be Pope Francis’ vision for a church that listens to each other and the Holy Spirit.
Are all your digital photos perfect. Do you want to edit out some things you did not see when you clicked.
Today, most iPhone users know how to edit out offending content.
Today, do we unconsciously edit out news that does not fit our world-view?
Neither you nor I can escape the fact that our world today is being consumed by the fire of violence.
Yet there is also a fire that very much needs fanning into flame… the fire of love!
We each need to ask … which fire and I feeding?
How did Mary learn to be Mother of the Church”? What can we learn from her as Mother of the Church?
Jesus rightly earned the title of extremist. Washing the feet of his followers could certainly be called an extreme. Giving his life to demonstrate what it means to love everyone… even those who had murderous hatred for him.
A woman wrote of the beginning years of her marriage: “I have become aware of what it means to be loved and it is that awareness of being loved that I am trying to share with others.” What a beautiful way of getting at yet another dimension of loving.
Pope Francis and even Jesus got trolled. What can we learn from them about handling trolls?
Jesus’ disciples experienced a transforming surprise.
God does not come to us in the way we want God to come. God comes to us in the ordinariness of our daily lives… if we open our eyes to see and hear, especially the cries of the poor… we will see God.
“People in cars—nice, non-aggressive people—put me in danger all the time because they see the road from the privileged perspective of a car.”
I never appreciated the fourth mystery of the rosary as an encounter between the old and the young. But it is a theme that runs through many of Pope Francis’ homilies on February 2.
A thread stitches almost all these posts together. Change! They all focused on something that called for a change. We are all on a journey of change together.
I was struck by Pope Francis’ contrast between the closed minds of “insiders” and the open minds of “outsiders… and… the challenge to us.
Vintage Francis!
Today, some cling to a late medieval view of the Church as expressed in the language and liturgy of the Council of Trent. Others think everything is up for grabs. Each group sees the shortcomings of the other. Neither is open to how they themselves miss the point.