There are moments in life when love becomes something deeper than affection or companionship. It becomes witness. It becomes reverence. Walking beside my husband through his long health journey has taught me this in ways I never expected.
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Every vocation is an invitation—a path that slowly shapes us into people who look a little more like Christ. We don’t always notice it at first. But over the years, the daily yeses, the quiet sacrifices, the unseen acts of love begin to form something holy within us.
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Lately I’ve been drawn to poetry. Resting on the words that touch me, noticing them, and creating space for their wisdom. I’m sharing one such prayer/poem from the Center for Action and Contemplation Practice on Being Born of the Spirit. May you breathe in new life!
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There are some ideas that stay with you long after you first hear them. Richard Rohr’s description of the Holy Spirit is one of those ideas, simple, tender, and quietly revolutionary. He writes of an Inner Reminder, an Inner Rememberer, the One who gathers up every scattered piece of our lives and holds them in love.
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Some days the spiritual life feels complicated, but Scripture keeps handing us simple, steady markers—quiet signposts that help us walk in the light.
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There is a way of reading Psalm 101 that turns the spotlight outward—toward “evil men,” corrupt influences, and those who walk in darkness. But there is another, more tender and more courageous reading: the “evil men” are not strangers at all. They are the wounded, frightened, unhealed parts within us that still speak in crooked ways, still wander from the straight path, still cling to old patterns of self‑protection.
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There is a truth so tender and so bold that Peter can only name it with the language of new birth: You have been born anew… from imperishable seed.
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When we read Paul’s words in Philippians 1:9–11, it’s easy to hear them as a personal prayer—something spoken over my heart, my growth, my discernment. But Paul wasn’t writing to an individual. He was praying over an entire community, a people learning to follow Christ together.
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Lately I’ve found myself lingering over the how necessary it is to look to Jesus to show me how to live. I’ve always been fascinated by the three moments in the Gospels when Jesus speaks in Aramaic—the everyday language of His people. Mark’s Gospel preserves these words with such care, almost as if he wants us to hear the tone, the breath, the intimacy of Jesus’ voice as He restores life and opens what has been closed.
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If God’s vision is big enough for everyone, then the work of freedom can’t stay abstract. It has to take shape in the small, ordinary places where we live, speak, choose, and relate. Liberation is not only a sweeping theological idea; it is a daily practice of becoming the kind of people who make God’s wide welcome visible.
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Smitten With Goodness 