Awakening to Goodness
We often enter Lent with plans and promises, but renewal begins with receiving.
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Day 2 — Noticing What Is Already Good
Awakening to goodness
Renewal often begins with paying attention. God’s presence is woven into the ordinary, waiting to be recognized in the small joys and quiet mercies of the day. As mental-health leaders encourage people to notice “micro-moments of joy,” we can receive that as a spiritual invitation too.
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Awakening to Goodness
Lent begins with a simple movement of the heart—a quiet turning toward God who is already turned toward us. Ignatian spirituality reminds us that grace is always at work in the ordinary, inviting us into deeper relationship.
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A Lenten Journey of Attention, Encounter, and Transformation
Lent is often imagined as a season of tightening, striving, or giving things up. But beneath all of that is a quieter invitation: to make space for God. Renewal doesn’t begin with effort—it begins with awareness. With noticing. By allowing ourselves to be met by the One who is already near.
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Lent is two days away. That usually means penance, abstinence, suffering. Or so we might think.
If the thought of Lent this year makes you feel weighed down, oppressed even, as if the practices are just one more thing to “do,” then it may be time for a gentle reboot.
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The Spirit prompted me to send you this reminder on how to pray and ask you to contemplate the gift of prayer.
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The ocean is a great teacher in how to cooperate with truth. Watch the surf: each wave gathers, as if by its own strength, yet it has been lifted into being by the power of the deep. It rises, crests, and crashes, pouring itself out until there is nothing left to give. Then, without resistance, it is drawn back into the depths to begin again.
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St. Alphonsus Liguori offers a stunningly simple truth: God, in His immensity, fills every corner of creation—yet He chooses two places as His particular dwelling. One is the highest heaven, radiant with glory. The other is far quieter, far smaller, far more surprising: the humble soul that loves Him.
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This morning, in the quiet of prayer, I felt God touch my heart with a love so deep it seemed to breathe life into me. My heart softened and tears ran down my face. The love of God became embodied in me.
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I’m loving this idea of the blueprint of the soul where the soul can be imagined as the hidden blueprint of our lives, the deep design God has inscribed within each of us. It is not something we invent or achieve, but something we awaken to…divine nature within us.
Just as a seed carries within it the pattern of the tree it will become, so our soul carries the truth of who we are and who we are called to be.
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Smitten With Goodness 