Grace: The gift of Unconditional Love

As I wrote yesterday, God’s grace flows freely to us.  God loves us unconditionally.   Even in the midst of holding us accountable, even in the midst of the wrathful-oriented God, the God of tough love, grace and mercy and unconditional Love are always present.  In Spider-man: Homecoming, it is Aunt May who offers it… […]

The mountaintop fall…

We like to think that we can stay on the mountaintop, on the spiritual high.  We are not meant to.  The mountaintop moments encourage us, instill hope back in us for when we are not on the mountain tops.  The mountaintop moments give us the opportunity to feel success, to breathe in victor, to see […]

Risk: An invitation for growth

Our spiritual journey invites us to take risks.  We can not always play it safe.  There is no growth without risk, without adventure.  So when the time comes, Spirit will invite us to take a risk.  Sometimes that risk feels huge… Spider-man:  Homecoming Spider-man is at the top of the Washington Monument, attempting to break […]

Courage in our Spiritual Journey

We all have fears.  Some feel real, like for example, fear of spiders.  Others we attach to life situations, creating the possibility of worse-case scenario, like fear of loss of job.  What we learn as we go through life is that the spiritual journey, our life journey, requires courage.  Spirit teaches us to face and […]

Endurance on our Spiritual Journey

The spiritual journey is not a race.  It is a journey that we walk our entire lives.  Sometimes it is relaxing and we spend time slowly walking through our life enjoying and relishing the moments.  Then there are those moments when it feels like and endurance race… Spider-man: Homecoming: Having just arrived at the Washington […]