Returning to Belovedness
There are many voices in our lives—some encouraging, some harsh, some that echo old wounds.
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Day 12 — A Heart Swept Clean
Communities everywhere are organizing neighborhood clean-ups, transforming neglected spaces into places of beauty. Our hearts need that same tender attention.
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Clearing space
We all carry stories about ourselves—some true, some inherited, some outdated.
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Clearing space
Sometimes the holiest thing we can do is stop. Leaders across industries are taking sabbaticals, recognizing that constant motion can numb the soul.
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Clearing space
Renewal doesn’t ask us to pretend. It invites honesty.
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Clearing space
Some things quietly drain our spirit without us realizing it—habits, expectations, patterns of thought. Many people are reevaluating their digital lives this year, recognizing how constant noise shapes the heart.
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Clearing Space
Renewal often begins with clearing a little space inside. As people everywhere embrace simplicity—paring down closets, schedules, and digital noise—we’re reminded that the soul also needs room to breathe.
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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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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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Smitten With Goodness 