Hal Green, Ph.D

The Prayer of St. Francis

We have never needed peace and peacemakers more than today. We need peace within us, peace between us and others, and peace in the world. We may not be able to bring peace to the world, but what about peace to our little corner of the world? Of all those disciples who came after Jesus, […]

The Prayer of St. Francis

We have never needed peace and peacemakers more than today. We need peace within us, peace between us and others, and peace in the world. We may not be able to bring peace to the world, but what about peace to our little corner of the world? Of all those disciples who came after Jesus, […]

Forgiveness

Jesus came healing. That means, Jesus came forgiving, for there is no more important form of healing than forgiveness. Forgiveness is a holy balm which cleanses and renews the blood of common life. Without forgiveness intimacy and love are doomed; without forgiveness our hearts are destined to become stone, and we the inmates of hell; […]

Why Do We Suffer?

Pain, suffering, affliction, trials and tribulations are primal mysteries, as ultimately unanswerable as the whys of life itself, including the whys of pleasure, joy and love as well as the negative. Yet the issue can plague us: Why do we suffer? To truly understand the why of suffering, we would need to understand what if […]

Arrival

I am in a “heart-fusion” with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It has become the greatest constant in my daily life. The breakthrough occurred during a ten-day intensive Centering Prayer retreat in August, 2003. The poem “Arrival” was among the first of a group of poetic meditations I wrote shortly after that life-changing event: I […]

Distance

How You can be both distant and near At seemingly the same time and place Will forever elude me. How I can so decisively sense You But not with any of my normal senses Abides like You beyond my grasp. Without mutual space continuously between us, Your unseen, immeasurable expanse, Not of this time-space continuum, […]