A Prayer for Disturbance

Explorer Sir Francis Drake prayed:

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed ...

Rescue Worker Has Vision of Jesus

Port Authority Police Department officers Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin were the last two people rescued from the World Trade Center following the September ...

Getting Alone with God

As soon as you are really alone, you are with God.

Come to God with a Bucket

Nancy Spiegelberg writes in Our Daily Bread:

Lord, I crawled across the bareness to you with my empty cup, uncertain in asking any small drop of refreshment. ...

Religion Doesn't Equal Faith

"One can love religion like anything else in life: sports, science, stamp collecting. One can love it for its own sake without relation to God or ...

Augustine: We Find God through Trouble

Our whole life on Earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.

God Loves like the Sun Shines

Consider the sun as an analogy. The sun only shines, just as God only loves. It is the nature of the sun to shine, to offer warmth and light. And it is ...

Sometimes God Shouts

God whispers to us in our well-being; he shouts to us in our suffering.

"Breakfast at Tiffany's": Afraid of Love

The classic film Breakfast at Tiffany's follows the escapades of New York playgirl Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) as she tries in vain to snare ...

Need for Faith

In the 1997 film, Contact, Dr. Ellie Arroway, played by Jodie Foster, is a radio astronomer trying to fulfill a lifelong quest to discover life on other ...