Mourning as a Path to Freedom I am deeply convinced that the death of those whom we love always is a death for us, that is to say, a death that calls us to deepen our own basic commitment and to develop a new freedom to proclaim what we most believe in. Mourning is a…

“Our glory is hidden in our pain, If we allow God to bring the gift of Himself in our experience of it.” -Henri Nouwen-

My mother always greeted her neighbor, who refused to respond. “Why do you keep doing it”, I asked; “don’t you see he doesn’t care?” “I am not doing it for his response”; she replied, “I am doing it because its the right, the kind thing to do.” I thought she was being foolish; now however,…

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from the restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? (From The Prophet by: Khalil Gibran)