The Tough Questions Archives – God In All Things

Suffering and God’s Loving Accompaniment

by andyotto | Jun 19, 2023 | The Tough Questions | 0

What’s is God’s role in suffering? It might be helpful to see God as a parent who accompanies their child in pain.

Seeking What I Already Have

by andyotto | Feb 20, 2023 | Awareness, The Tough Questions | 0

We are all seekers, longing for inner peace and purpose. What if we already had what we were seeking all along?

Conforming God to My Unfreedoms

by andyotto | Sep 26, 2022 | Discernment, The Tough Questions | 1

We sometimes try to conform God to our decisions, rather than the other way around. In his Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius explains how we often make a means an end in itself. We need both internal and external freedom.

War and Ego

by andyotto | Mar 19, 2022 | The Tough Questions | 1

We’re all prone to the tactics of the evil spirit. For some it leads to catastrophic evil like war.

The Neighbourhood

by andyotto | Jan 11, 2021 | The Tough Questions | 1

Through his neighbourhood, Mister Rogers teaches us how to be people of love and how to truly know one another. His neighbourhood was kind of a metaphor for the kingdom of God.

The Tension of Poverty and Abundance

by andyotto | Dec 14, 2020 | Awareness, The Tough Questions | 4

The pandemic has revealed the tension between our experiences of poverty and abundance. It’s fitting to reflect on that this Advent season.

Threat or Freedom? – Two Ways of Reading the Gospel

by andyotto | Sep 21, 2020 | Scripture Reflections, The Tough Questions | 3

Do you read the Gospel and Jesus’ statements through a lens of threat or a lens of freedom? How you do will make a big difference of how you see God, church, and religion.

How can I trust that I’m not ‘making up’ my prayer experience?

by andyotto | Aug 24, 2020 | Prayer, The Tough Questions | 0

When we pray using our imagination we might worry that the content of our prayer is not of God, but of our own makings. Here are a few ways you can discern the “voice” in your prayer.