MOURNING BECOMES GLADNESS
Lent is for rediscovering that we are created for the inextinguishable flame, not for ashes that immediately disappear.
RELUCTANT PROPHETS
Fear is often present when facing the unknown. However, if we let fear govern, we will only find ourselves running from the good.
THIS IS HOW YOU ARE TO PRAY
Sometimes, all I can do is trust in my Father, who art in Heaven, whose will and plans for me are better than I could ever dream.
POVERTY OF HEART
Perhaps what my husband or wife lacks, what my children lack, what my parents lack, is not clothes or food. Perhaps they lack love, because I do not give it to them.
ON BREAD ALONE
No matter how much we are able to accomplish by our own will, true contentment and peace will only come from resting in the assurance that God is always present in our lives.
GRACIOUS DISCIPLESHIP
Perhaps instead of wondering about how we are to follow Christ, we may reflect on the gift of this invitation to discipleship.
THE FASTING GOD WISHES
For a long time, I missed the deeply communal dimension of self-denial: to enrich others.
LISTENING INTENTLY
How am I to make time this Lent to pause, to listen, and to notice God moving in my life?
COMPANIONS OF JESUS
Though I came to realize prayers are not answered with a single, dramatic event but through a gradual, sidewinding process.
DEEPLY IN LOVE
How will falling deeply in love with Jesus who is deeply in love with us decide what we do?
MUTUAL FRIENDS
“Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have." – Lk. 24:39
HUNTING THE GOD STUFF
It is an Ignatian practice to “find God in all things”. Could this be made easier by finding “good in all things?” Perhaps then, where there is good, there you will find God.
SEEING JESUS THROUGH THE EYES OF MARY MAGDALENE
Let us borrow the eyes of Mary Magdalene so we can love Jesus and be joyous that our dear friend and savior has risen.
FAITH IN THE RESURRECTION, OUR SUPERPOWER
Our superpower comes from trusting in God who redeems more than rescues. Our stories will end well because they're part of God’s bigger picture.
LOOK UPON HIM
What if I imagined Jesus looking at me, addressing me by name, saying: “Jen, take them out. Take out my nails.”
TO SUFFER WITH AND LIKE YOU HAVE
“Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done." - Lk 22:42