At the beginning of Mass this week, a simple refrain caught my heart in a way I didn’t expect: “Everyone needs compassion… love that’s never failing… let mercy fall on me.
Everyone needs forgiveness… the kindness of a Savior… the hope of nations.”
I continue to ponder this weeks Gospel. This people and their stories are rich soil. There is a moment that stops me: God says to Solomon, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.” It is an open invitation limitless, generous, breathtaking.
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There were multiple experiences at Mass this week that stayed with me long after I walked out the doors, quiet insights that settled into my heart that kept unfolding. The Gospel spoke of the merchant searching for fine pearls, and suddenly the image shifted for me. I wasn’t just imagining the merchant. I was imagining the pearl.
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Each day we live is a small reflection, a microcosm of our whole life. The choices we make, the desires we follow, the attention we give… all of it quietly reveals what we value most. And if we are honest, many days slip by without our hearts ever pausing to ask the deeper question: Is this drawing me closer to God?
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There is a quiet, liberating grace in discovering the power of and. It is one of the deepest movements of the Spirit—this widening of the heart that allows us to hold truth and tenderness together, strength and vulnerability together, conviction and compassion together.
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“You were made for mission. You were created to serve powerfully. And you will never be truly happy until you find a way to lay down your life for others that engages your talents and abilities,” Matthew Kelly.
As a spiritual director, I often hold these words gently before a directee, not as a command, but as an invitation. They speak to the deep truth that each of us carries a God‑given purpose, a way of offering ourselves that becomes both healing for the world and deeply life‑giving for our own soul. There are many ways we resist happiness and this is one.
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Sister Thea Bowman’s words on cosmic spirituality have been echoing in me: her insistence that to know God in the fullness of reality, we must learn “new languages… new rhythms… new ways of glorifying the Lord.” Something in that feels like the very invitation God has been whispering into my own life, a widening of vision, a new way of seeing who God is and how God moves across the world.
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To walk the way of Christ is to step into a path already made holy. Jesus came among us so that “people may walk in innocence,” not by our own strength, but by His presence shaping our hearts from within.
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Wildflowers have no strategy. No five‑year plan. No anxious scanning of the horizon determining what’s next or preparing for every situation that might arise.
They simply grow.
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Growth rarely feels gentle at first. It stretches us, unsettles us, and asks something real of us. As Matthew Kelly writes, “Growth is often on the other side of discomfort. A muscle only grows through resistance. A seed has to be buried and split open before it becomes a tree. Gold is refined by fire… Growth often begins where comfort ends.”
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