The impossible life of peace, joy, justice centred in the other, only becomes possible because God makes it possible.
The gifts we most need – a place of belonging and a place of sacred meaning – will be found when we offer them to others.
Joseph is an admirable model of the willingness to put calling and values ahead of convenience or reputation.
Hope is a courageous and active stance towards life which is nourished in those who attend to the voice of God in Scripture.
Faced with the callous injustice of the world, it takes tenacious trust in the vision of God’s just reign to survive.
The faith of Christ is about the redemptive power of wounds, so love your wound and befriend it, for it is probably an angel of God in disguise.
When the world falls apart, God recognises the pain, the despair, and the anger, and gifts us with faith, with an assurance that God’s power of love will yet prevail, that God will accomplish the justice and the peace we long for.
Even those whose actions are morally indefensible usually have attributes that challenge our own failings.
Destructive evil is all around us and within us, but God has not given up on us.
In the economy of God, there are no boundaries to the welcome we, all of us, receive by the unconditional gift of God’s grace.
Our liturgical expression of faith can nurture but not substitute for putting our faith into action.
God calls us to detach, to empty ourselves of desire, to die with Christ, so that we may truly welcome Christ when he returns to his appointed home in our hearts and souls.
In baptism we are joined to Christ and we now live as he leads, and celebrate the freedom of others to do so also.
God has ordained that the work of God should flow from a deep and abiding being with God, from a baptism in the love which holds all things together in Christ.
The gospel calls us on a road to healing and wholeness, but its steps are so deceptively simple (which doesn’t mean easy) that we often don’t take them seriously and so don’t do them.
God sees us, the baptised, as having the appearance of Christ, which gives us reason to believe in ourselves and live up to it.
The Trinitarian stories resemble the dreaming of Australia’s Aborigines, for both imagine the divine as a community of being in which we are invited to participate, and so find our true being.
Following Christ may take us into costly confrontation with the powers of the world, and we cannot be protected from the costs of that, but Christ will bring us through to the land of promise beyond.
Our worship is a part of a cosmic liturgy of praise to the One who was slaughtered in reconciling a suffering universe to God.
Locating our struggles within the bigger picture of God’s purposes can give hope and purpose, but it also places us in a challenging place of priestly mission.