Failure or Opportunity?

Somebody asked Winston Churchill one time, "What most prepared you to lead Great Britain through World War II?" For a period of time, Great ...

God Uses Broken Things

God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the ...

Training for Failure

The increase of suicides, alcoholics, and even some forms of nervous breakdowns is evidence that many people are training for success when they should ...

Heartbreak Hill

There is another reason that we don't persevere. Sometimes we face "Heartbreak Hill." In the Boston Marathon, there is a legendary obstacle ...

Loving the Question

To say the Jesuit novitiate was Spartan is an understatement. It was terrible. We knelt on wooden blocks for three hours a day--we all had housemaid's ...

Broken Things

God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the ...

Against the Wind

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Healing Entry

How else but through a broken heart

May Lord Christ enter in?

Hopelessness Breeds Blessing

Our Lord begins where we would never begin, at the point of human destitution. The greatest blessing a man ever gets from God is the realization that, ...

Learning the Hard Way

If you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched upbringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of ...