When someone “becomes our cross,” the Father is asking us to become their Christ.

You will be all your ages, for none of them was granted to you without purpose.

Who would make sunshine, flowers, rainbows, puppies and babies without expecting anything in return?

Leonardo da Vinci believed that man was a microcosm of the world, imbued with meaning.

Leonardo da Vinci suggests that what did happen is what had to have happened.

We are all part faithful, part faithless.

If we have run, if we have been exposed for all the world to see, it is not our failure that matters most. It is Christ’s strength.

If faith isn’t a strong ship, how can we expect it to carry us over the waters of death?

Have you heard the saints confess? It fills you with wonder at God’s grace, so clearly at work in their lives, in our world.

Rules protect life, but they do not enhance it.