Recently I read a quote from St. Catherine of Genoa that almost feels like a spiritual tightrope. It’s a place when surrender and responsibility meet:
Continue reading “The Spiritual Tightrope”The Spiritual Tightrope
Month: January 2026
Born in God’s Image, Growing Into God’s Life
We are made in the image of God — radiant, intentional, crafted with love. Yet our human condition means we rarely live with the clarity, freedom, and holiness that image reflects. We stumble. We forget. We get tangled in fears, habits, and desires that pull us away from who we were created to be.
Continue reading “Born in God’s Image, Growing Into God’s Life”Wisdom That Feeds the Heart
Scripture tells us that “with him are wisdom and might; his are counsel and understanding” (Job 12:13). Wisdom, in the biblical sense, is never just information. It is not the accumulation of facts or the mastery of ideas. Wisdom is the fruit of loving God—of allowing knowledge to be shaped, purified, and directed by prayer.
Continue reading “Wisdom That Feeds the Heart”To Be Grounded
Scripture loves the language of growth. Vines, branches, roots, seeds, soil—images that are alive, slow, and stubbornly organic. They remind us that God never hands us a detailed itinerary toward perfection. Instead, he offers something far more intimate: a glimpse into the ongoing work of the Creator and the quiet, recurring rhythms of our cooperation.
Continue reading “To Be Grounded”When You Don’t Know What to Do
I recently sat with someone who doesn’t believe in God. What he does believe in is the ache inside him, the heaviness of not knowing what to do with the heaviness of the world. He seemed paralyzed, like he was in a fog with no map, no compass, and no voice to guide him.
And honestly, who hasn’t felt that way at some point.
Continue reading “When You Don’t Know What to Do”Called To Holiness From the Dark
There are passages in Scripture that refuse to let us drift. Ephesians 4 is one of them. St. Paul speaks with the urgency of someone who knows what is at stake: “You must no longer live as the Gentiles do… darkened in understanding… alienated from the life of God because of their hardness of heart.”
Continue reading “Called To Holiness From the Dark”Come, Follow Me
Every invitation from Christ is an invitation into life—not a smaller, safer life, but the kind that stretches us, awakens us, and draws us into something far greater than we could build on our own. When Jesus says, “Come, follow me,” He isn’t offering a suggestion. He’s offering a way of being that transports us into the fullness of who we were created to become.
Continue reading “Come, Follow Me”Letting Christ Clothe Our Heart
Psalm 93 invites us to stand before a God whose majesty is not distant, but deeply personal. “The Lord is king, with majesty enrobed.” His strength steadies the world, His voice rises above the roar of the waters, and His presence remains firm from all eternity. Yet this same God desires to dwell within the fragile, shifting places of our own hearts.
Continue reading “Letting Christ Clothe Our Heart”The Mystery of Prayer
Prayer is one of the most familiar words in the Christian life, yet it remains one of its deepest mysteries. We speak, we listen, we open our hearts and somehow, in ways we cannot measure or control, God meets us there. The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes prayer as “the encounter of God’s thirst with ours” (CCC 2560). That line alone could occupy a lifetime of reflection. Prayer is not simply our effort to reach God; it is God already reaching for us. It is an encounter with the living water.
Continue reading “The Mystery of Prayer”A Faith That Is Lived
Faith is not a theory we hold in our minds,
nor a word we speak with our lips.
It is the way we walk,
the way we love,
the way we suffer and forgive.
Smitten With Goodness 