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Being with a friend in great pain is not easy. It makes us uncomfortable. We do not know what to do or what to say, and we worry about how t...

As Christians, we are people of the resurrection, therefore we are people who love to laugh, who believe that laughter is a wonderfully life...

It is often in our absence that the Spirit of God manifests itself. When Jesus left his disciples he said: "It is for your own good tha...

It is good to visit people who are sick, dying, shut in, handicapped, or lonely. But it is also important not to feel guilty when our visits...

Listening in the spiritual life is much more than a psychological strategy to help others discover themselves. In the spiritual life the lis...

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, s...

So many terrible things happen every day that we start wondering whether the few things we do ourselves make any sense. When people are star...

I was going through a difficult time, dealing with one of life's traumas, when a close family member abandoned me. Or so I thought. That...

We spend an enormous amount of energy making up our minds about other people. Not a day goes by without somebody doing or saying something t...

One of the hardest spiritual tasks is to live without prejudices. Sometimes we aren't even aware how deeply rooted our prejudices are. W...

Children are their parents' guests. They come into the space that has been created for them, stay for a while - fifteen, twenty, or twen...

Every good relationship between two or more people, whether it is friendship, marriage, or community, creates space where strangers can ente...

My Lord Jesus Christ, two graces I beg of You before I die: The first is that in my lifetime I may feel, in my soul and in my body, as far a...

Many human relationships are like the interlocking fingers of two hands. Our loneliness makes us cling to each other, and this mutual clingi...

God's love for us is everlasting. That means that God's love for us existed before we were born and will exist after we have died. I...

"I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My Hands..." (Isaiah 49:15b-16a) What matters supremely, therefo...

When God makes a covenant with us, God says: "I will love you with an everlasting love. I will be faithful to you, even when you run aw...

God made a covenant with us. The word covenant means "coming together." God wants to come together with us. In many of the stories...

When the adrenaline of a birth with a "good outcome" wore off, I found myself at home with a three-month-old baby and a two-year-o...

I cannot imagine what it would be like to endure a tragedy without the hope that God offers. Without Jesus Christ, there is no hope... Of co...