Topics of inspiration, celebration of God’s love in ourself and others.
There are seasons in life when words come easily, and there are seasons when they don’t. Seasons when faith feels steady and close, and others when, like the psalmist in Psalm 42, all I can do is acknowledge the thirst.
Continue reading “When My Soul Is Thirsty”
The world seems smaller than ever. Through the internet, social media, and smartphones, we are constantly connected with people from different cultures, backgrounds, and beliefs. While this can sometimes create tension, it also presents an extraordinary opportunity for Christians to witness to the Gospel.
Continue reading “The Power of Friendliness”
We can only forgive others at the depth we know we ourselves the need to be forgiven. Not in a self‑deprecating way, not in shame, but in the honest recognition of our human condition, fragile, limited, and living in a world still laboring under sin and death.
Continue reading “The Flow of Forgiveness”
During yesterday’s prayer time, on the Feast Day of the Holy Guardian Angels, I was awakened once more to the incredible gift God has given each of us through their presence.
Continue reading “The Gift of Our Guardian Angel”
There are weeks when something in us loosens, our bodies falter, our plans scatter, our attention drifts. We feel the edges of our humanity, the tenderness of being breakable. And yet, in that very place, another truth quietly rises: we are held.
Continue reading “Holding What Remains”
There are moments when something inside us stirs, a quiet desire to rise, to lean toward the One who calls us the faithful. It isn’t dramatic. It’s more like a gentle upward pull, a longing to step out of the shadows and into the light that has been waiting for us all along.
Continue reading “Lifting Ourselves”
There is a quiet truth we learn only after years of living: the things we chase in this world can never fully be ours. Houses, land, titles, achievements, none of them can belong wholly to more than one person at a time. And because of that, they so often become the source of rivalry, comparison, and restless striving. Earthly goods divide us. They create borders, competition, and the subtle ache of wanting what another has.
Continue reading “Our Spiritual Wages”
There is a quiet strength that rises in us when we remember who God is and who we are in Him. Scripture keeps repeating the invitation: give everything to the Lord, for He is good. Not because God needs our offerings, but because we need the freedom that comes when we place our lives back into His hands.
Continue reading “Holding Fast to Grace”
There are days when the language of the psalms feels almost too honest—when the image of a deer panting for water mirrors something deep inside us. A thirst not for answers, not for achievement, not even for relief, but for God. For the One who is the source of our life.
Continue reading “When the Soul Thirsts”
There is a kind of love that doesn’t simply comfort us, it changes us. Scripture calls it a love that is patient and kind, a love that bears and believes and hopes and endures. A love that never fails. It is the love of Christ, and it is the love we are invited to grow into. It’s rich soil.
Continue reading “The Soil of Transformation”
