Thomas Edison is famous for his inventions of the light bulb. We forget that he attempted the lightbulb 1,000 times unsuccessfully before prevailing. When a reporter asked him, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison said, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” Our Lord and…
The obvious deception here is that winning can’t be everything, by definition it is at most half of everything. The other half is losing, which our society tends to deny and avoids. But that’s not healthy, whole or rational. We will face as many losses in our life as wins; and the older we get…
The problem with ‘original sin’ is that it starts the greatest story ever told in the middle, not the beginning. We did fall and allowed evil into the world, true, but that is chapter three of Genesis. Chapter one is when almighty God made everything before us, galaxies, earth, oceans, whales, quarks and leptons and…
So if you want true Lent summed up in 250 characters or less, don’t go to twitter, go the beautiful and inspiring words of the Prophet Joel and go to them often. ‘Even now, says the lord, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; rend your hearts, not your…
In a video message, Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, encourages the faithful to fully experience the season of Great Lent. “Lent is, above all, a time of preparation,” says Bishop Mesrop. “It prepares us to fully immerse ourselves in the great Mystery of the Christian faith: the…
This, hints Jesus, is how a life of faith works. We can drink up our blessings, take our life for granted and then fall short, or we can trust that in offering our blessings to God and others he can multiply them…and sharing our trials with others and God, he can help overcome them. Jesus…
In his book entitled God’s Psychiatry, Charles Allen tells this story: As World War II was drawing to a close, the Allied armies gathered up many hungry orphans. They were placed rehabilitation centers where they were well-fed. But despite excellent care, they slept poorly-they were anxious and afraid. At some point a psychologist came up…