The Bradley Blog

"As long as you operate inside any scarcity model, there will never be enough God or grace to go around. Jesus came to undo our notions of scarcity and tip us over into a worldview of absolute abundance – or what he would call the “Reign of God.” The Gospel reveals a...

“We do not need to be afraid of the depths and breadths of our own lives, of what this world offers us or asks of us. We are given permission to become intimate with our own experiences, learn from them, and allow ourselves to descend to the depth of things, even our...

Everything visible, without exception, is the outpouring of God. What else could it really be? “Christ” is a word for the Primordial Template (“Logos”) through whom “all things came into being, and not one thing had its being except through him” (John 1:3). – Richard...

Know it well, love is its meaning.
Who reveals this to you? Love.
What does he reveal? Love. Why? For Love.
Remain in this and you will know more of the same. – Lady Julian of Norwich, Showings

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers.

Becoming the Beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour. – Henri J. Nouwen

Whatever people say by the grace of the Spirit, therefore, is useful if it springs from love and ends in it. Salvation, then, is exactly this—the two-fold love of God and of our neighbor.” – Amma Theodora of Alexandria

This is adoration: not a difficult religious exercise, but an attitude of the soul. –Evelyn Underhill

Love, which might be called the attraction of all things toward all things, is a universal language and underlying energy that keeps showing itself despite our best efforts to resist it. It is so simple that it is hard to teach in words, yet we all know it when we see it. –- Richard Rohr

Monday Morning Meditation Minute When the spiritual intellect is stripped of its obsessions, it discovers the Holy Spirit, and in the same way, the Spirit initiates it into the fullness of its hopes.  -Thalassios the Libyan