Disappointment is a part of this world. We can’t avoid it, we will have it; our choice is what to do with it. Disappointment may not be able to be gone from our life, but it can be invested. Jesus demonstrated disappointment with the actions of both friends, foes, and those who were neither – …
A tendency is to run away from pain, and to think that wisdom is learning to recognise pain in order that we might escape it sooner and more effectively. The wisdom that we learn at the foot of the cross is that we are free to move toward pain. It is a wisdom and freedom …
Disciples of Jesus are called to follow him, taking up our cross. Because the freedom and desire to follow Jesus flow from Jesus’ own unique and unrepeatable bearing of his cross on our behalf, his invitation is a call to recognise that our burdens are real, but they are borne in the life that Jesus …
The Jesus who calls us follow him, is also the Jesus who is with us always, is the Jesus who walks alongside us, is the Jesus who calls us his friends. The same Jesus counsels us that we will have trouble in the world, and offers the comfort that he has overcome the world. From …
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