Living Grace

Today’s Gospel passage from John 2:1-11 offers us the story of the wedding at Cana, where Jesus turned water into wine. To fully understand this moment of Jesus’ life we have to see marriage as an archetypal symbol of our individual and collective relationship to the...

Monday: I believe most of us have had conscious encounters with the Divine. Though they are impossible to put into words, it is helpful to try. After all, we are thinking beings, and our capacity to express ourselves in words is part of what makes us...

We are sometimes so occupied with finding God in the heavens that we miss the truth that God is hiding in plain sight. Here is an example: God is present whenever there is real contact between people. What constitutes real contact? Real contact, as I am defining it,...

Our sense of separation from God is nothing but an illusion. Yogananda says, “We are as close to God as we will ever be; we just have to improve our knowing.” Saints and sages teach us that the path to knowing our oneness with God is simple: surrender. What is the...

Truly, we are all seduced by the ego’s distorted ideologies, addiction to power, prestige and pleasure, fear mongering, and absolute insanity. Yet to a greater or lesser extent, we all live in and through our egos. You may be shocked when I tell you that there is an...

I vividly remember the first time I held my two biological sons, both of whom are now well into adulthood. I was filled with a profound sense of awe and wonder. I knew I was experiencing something much larger than myself, much larger than all of my mental constructs....