You and I are children of God: “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12). God wanted to imprint deeply in our being the exclusive union to be a human being, and that is why, and only this… [Read More]
Spit, Mercy and the Human Spiritual Life
What is it about Jesus spitting, putting his fingers in the deaf man’s ear? It hits on something within us, pulls on something. Some inner notion of cleanliness, of boundaries, of unworthiness. It’s uncomfortable. Unusual. Certainly not how we would expect the God-man to act. Now – to bow at his feet, to stand at… [Read More]
