I AM NOT DISGRACED
God gives me gifts and talents to be more than I can ever imagine. I am not defined by my sins. I am not disgraced. I am a child of God.
WE ALL HAND OTHERS OVER TO SUFFERING
When we are willing to confess that we often hand those we love over to suffering, even against our best intentions, we encounter God’s forgiving love.
WHERE AM I?
Through the years, I have come to greater understanding that in order to live fully, I must allow myself to be seen.
HIDE & SEEK
I’ve been so busy telling God where he is not welcome, that I missed his invitation to “come and just be.”
CALLED TO HOPE
Everything about the readings today speaks of the coming darkness of the end of Lent and Good Friday; however, there is hope.
PROMISES OF LOVE IN AN EVERLASTING COVENANT
God did not make a contract with us; God forged a covenant with us, and God wants our relationships with one another to reflect that covenant.
SET FREE
The peace that Jesus offers is one that transcends the limitations of this world and provides a freedom that glimpses what is to come.
CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER AS GOD IN US
The great mystery of the contemplative life is not that we see God in the world, but that God within us recognizes God in the world.
AWAKENED LIVES: ABRAHAM AND ST. JOSEPH
What are our lives' defining moments? What moved our hearts from stagnation to significance? What is currently moving our hearts?
SURPRISING SADNESS
We may be invited to wait where things seem difficult or painful, yet turn to Christ. The God of surprises will bring greater life in ways we least expect.
STANDING WITH THE MARGINALIZED
I have come to experience that Jesus is always inviting us to gather people, not necessarily ‘convert’ them.
ACCEPTING OUR BROKENNESS - AND LIVING IT
Jesus invited us to embrace our brokenness as he embraced the cross and live it as part of our mission
THE ILLUMINATING PROMISES of GOD’s LOVE
How is God walking with you in the promises he has made to you? In what ways is he cultivating your heart into a garden?
STANDING ROOM ONLY
When my prayer begins to feel like a narrow corner with no escape, perhaps I am the one who boxed God in and not the other way around.
ALLOWING OURSELVES TO BE HEALED
During this Lenten season, let us listen to Jesus’ question, “Do you want to be well?”
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..