After I received Jesus into my heart in 1982, I expected big revelations and encounters that would make substantial changes in me and my life. Changed my life He did but it took an extraordinarily long time to change me. The main sign of change I had the day after I came to Jesus was […]

I traveled a lot by myself but not by myself. Everywhere I went it was His presence that gave me confidence and no fear at all. There were so many occasions when I did not find anybody waiting for me at an unknown country and airport. But God was with me, and he always arranged […]

After his arrival to the Kibbutz Antonio’s head was not in the right place according to his own assessment. He could pinch himself! The first night, after an amazing tour of the place, he went to bed thinking about what was going to happen when the Catholic authorities in his Augustinian order found out that […]

I began to separate papers that I had found in a big plastic tub, abandoned for years. I quickly immersed myself in a past that is now totally foreign. Did I really kept these things? First I found souvenirs from my French school, La Maisonnette in Chile. It was a joy to see pictures of […]

It was interesting to me to be a new person in Christ. Suddenly I could see how my life had evolved from my childhood to a teenager and then adulthood, obviously always protected by God. My memory of knowing that God was there, through the ray of sun hitting my baby playpen, is still vivid. […]

God is not a movie star whom we like or don’t like, nor a politician whom we admire but who does nothing unless he gets some bribe. He does not want our tolerance or admiration. He desires, He demands, our allegiance. We need to surrender to His will for us. We must be weaned from […]

It was a dream. I went back to the cemetery where the broken saints were left under the feet of the Christ hanging from an arch of cement. More people, that didn’t have any face, were coming to throw away saints but this time the saints were not broken. I immediately knew what the saint […]

I read for the nth time about the woman touching Jesus’ tallit and being healed. This time I had a totally unexpected reaction. I realized that Jesus for her was the only hope left. She had tried everything. Spent all she had. She had followed the law by not being in public, because that also […]

I remember going to different churches in Chile (and then in the States), and priests or pastors would talk about having faith for something or doing it by faith. They never explained what they exactly meant. You have to “apply your faith” and “you have to have faith”. “Do it by faith”. It always sounded […]

At my job in Dallas, I hired a girl who had something different in her attitude about the world, and we became friends. I told her that I would talk about anything but politics or religion. She said: “What about philosophy?” I said, “yes, I like philosophy”, and she gave me a copy of The […]