Hal Green, Ph.D

Risk Believing in Yourself

One risk worth taking, is to believe in yourself. To believe in yourself does not mean to think you are always right; it does not entail a self-defensive stance of pride, which only gets in your way and masks you from the truth. To believe in yourself does not include feeling superior to others. Actually, […]

Contemplative Prayer

We come to the final and ultimate stage of prayer in this life: contemplation. You are ready for contemplative prayer when your heart seeks to commune with God directly, when nothing and no one but God alone will satisfy you. Psalm 73:24-26 well expresses this life-changing realization: “Whom have I in heaven but you? And […]

About Contemplative Prayer

You are ready for contemplative prayer when your heart seeks to commune with God directly, when nothing and no one but God alone will satisfy you. Psalm 73:24-26 well expresses this life-changing realization: “Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire other than you. My flesh and […]

The Benefits of Prayer

Prayer establishes your personal, private relationship with God. It is the greatest love relationship you will ever have; it may begin here, but it will not end here. Amazingly, it is eternal. When you pray, the hidden God will be gazing on you from eternity, and seeing not only where you are, but where God […]

See Whatever Comes as a Gift

If you could see whatever comes your way as a gift, that would itself be a great gift. One morning last week, after I had been up late and determined to sleep in, the phone rang early. I answered it and a situation presented itself requiring my time and attention, changing the course of my […]

Open the Gift You Are

You are God’s gift to yourself. That may sound strange, but it is nonetheless the truth. As I wrote to myself back in my twenties, shortly after my first encounter with the Holy Spirit, “God gave me, me, long before I asked.” By that I meant there was more to me than I had imagined; […]