SADNESS & JOY
I experienced a joyful funeral that helped me welcome anew other deaths in my life.
JESUS, BE WITH ME
When I position myself to listen and look at Him in the most vulnerable part of my day, I am intentionally and gently acknowledging my friendship and need for Him.
GOD-SUFFICIENCY
Do I overlook my own sinfulness and control God's favor over me by doing things for Christ instead of with Christ?
STUBBORN LOVE
God reminds me – urges me – to come back to God even in my abandonment of God..
SITTING WITH THE SPACE BETWEEN
I found that Jesus was right there in the midst of it. He was not running away or shunning these moments from happening.
EXAMPLE OF MERCY
God accepts us just as we are. He receives and invites us to greater transformation, forgiveness, and a deeper more loving way of life.
ENOUGH ALREADY?
Once centered on me, my thoughts and prayer drift towards God, and I worry less about what is enough.
THE CALL TO CHRISTIAN POVERTY AND SIMPLICITY
But it’s the resurrection that makes sense of it all. It reminds me to stake my security on something that can’t be taken by fire or flood or earthquake.
LOVE NEVER TIRES OF LOVING
Love cannot bear being locked up in itself. By its nature it is open, it spreads and bears fruit, it always kindles new love.
HOLDING ON TIGHTLY
Sometimes, our heroic Lenten intentions ends up feeling like treading water...
STEP ONE: PAY ATTENTION
God invites me to come, as I am, to be with those God loves the most. This means that God is guiding me to see the world as God sees it.
PENNY FOR YOUR WISHES
How are my wishes different from what God wishes of me? How can I slow down this Lent and appreciate God’s wish for me instead of expecting things of Him?
ANGELS
I imagine that God will ask me two questions, “Did you know my Son, Jesus?” and “Who did you bring?” What will He ask you?
KEEPING SCORE
Lord, help me to be the unconditional friend to you that you already are to me.
AN UNWELCOME GUEST
Jesus' patient waiting in the place where I do not want to go is an invitation for me to follow him there.
EXQUISITE LOVE
Rabia, an 8th Century Sufi mystic wrote, “One day God did not leave after kissing me..."
PILES
The chair in today’s readings represents the perspective from which each of us views our area of responsibility.
TO BE LED BY JESUS
Pope Francis invites young people to have dreams that are "real, with our gaze always facing the horizon."