This is a guest post by Fr. Dominic Grassi. Expectations have a lot to do with how we experience the holy days of Christmas. One year, my expectations almost prevented me from enjoying the grace that accompanied me. I grew up with three older brothers, and all of them had been altar servers at our [...]
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Read this week’s excerpt from Bumping Into God Again, “Hero–of the Unsung Variety” here. A friend of mine recently described specific people who had changed her life. They had changed her just by being themselves, by loving her in their particular ways of loving. They did not change her life by imposing any kind of [...]
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Read this week’s excerpt from Bumping Into God Again, “The Face of God” here. It’s not so difficult to talk about God being present when someone is healed. After all, God’s the one who fixes our brokenness, right? This is the god we especially like—the one who doesn’t allow the discomfort to continue, or who [...]
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Read this week’s excerpt from Bumping Into God, “Sleeping in the Park” here. I’m convinced that most of us Christians take ourselves much too seriously. Maybe that’s because we imagine God, not as a loving presence who is always with us, but as a grumpy sort of deity who is too concerned about sin to [...]
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Read this week’s excerpt from Bumping into God: “Dreams and Grace” here. If you want to embark on an interesting exercise, write the story of your life. Write it quickly, without thinking about it much. And write only for about fifteen or twenty minutes. This will force you to hit the highlights only—the events that [...]
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