Topics of inspiration, celebration of God’s love in ourself and others.
There is a quiet promise woven through Scripture: “You shall seek the Lord your God, and you shall indeed find him when you search after him with your whole heart and your whole soul.” That line from Deuteronomy has always struck me as both a command and a consolation. God does not hide. God invites. And faith, true, living faith, leans forward in response.
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Every so often, a line of spiritual writing doesn’t just inspire—it pierces. It finds the hidden place inside us where longing and fear and hope all live together, and it speaks directly into that space with a tenderness we didn’t know we needed. That’s what happened for me when I sat with the words of Sister Mary of the Holy Trinity’s meditation “Made Clean by Christ’s Love” in the Magnificat. Especially the image of Jesus saying, “Rejoice because you are my beloved… there is nothing between you and me.”
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Most of us carry an inner sense of what God’s voice sounds like. We may not think about it consciously, but we imagine a certain tone—gentle or stern, patient or disappointed. Often, without realizing it, we link God’s voice to our behavior. If we’ve done well, we imagine encouragement. If we’ve fallen short, we brace for correction. It’s as if God waits to speak until after we’ve acted, responding to our successes or failures.
But that’s not how God relates to us.
Continue reading “Hearing the God Who Speaks First”
Each year, the Holy Father invites the Church—and anyone of goodwill—to unite in prayer for a specific intention each month. It’s a simple but powerful way to remember that our faith is never lived alone. When we pray with the intentions of the Pope, we join our voices with millions around the world, asking God to move in our hearts and in our communities.
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Jesus offers us a way of living shaped by gentleness and humility, a rhythm that stands in contrast to the pressure and urgency that so often define our days. His “easy task” and “light burden” don’t mean life is effortless, but that we are never meant to carry it alone.
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As the Christmas season draws to a close, the Church leads us to the Jordan River—quiet, dusty, and crowded with sinners seeking a new beginning. And there, astonishingly, we find Jesus. The sinless One stands among the broken, the weary, the repentant. He joins the line of those longing for mercy, not because He needs cleansing, but because we do.
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John’s words in 1 John 4:11–18 draw us back to the very heart of the Christian life: love. Not the fragile, shifting kind we often encounter in the world, but the steady, self-giving love that begins in God and flows through us. “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another.” It’s both a command and a revelation. We love because we have first been loved.
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The Incarnation is not a poetic idea or a distant doctrine. It is God choosing to step directly into the grit and beauty of human life—into families with tensions, bodies that grow tired, communities that misunderstand, and days that don’t go as planned. Jesus didn’t come to float above real life; He came to inhabit it so that we could learn how to make sense of our own.
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There’s a line from an old hymn I prayed recently in the Divine Office that has been echoing in my heart lately:
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Last night, I stood in the backyard looking at the moonlight shining on my house and the twinkle of the Christmas lights through the window. Their soft glow felt almost like a benediction of tiny, trembling prayers strung across branches and the banister. The Christmas tree lights still shimmer in the early January dusk, as if the world is reluctant to let go of this season of brightness.
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Smitten With Goodness 