The living Word still speaks—here, now, in the very texture of our day. As a spiritual director, I often remind those I accompany that Scripture is not merely a text to be studied but a presence to be welcomed. Through our imagination, we allow the Word to take root within us. We let it move from the page into the heart, from hearing into responding.
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It is astonishing how quickly the world can pull me off center these days. One moment I’m grounded, breathing, aware and the next I’m swept into noise, urgency, comparison, or the low‑grade overwhelm that hums beneath modern life.
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Recently I read a reflection from St. John Eudes and the words he voiced had a gentle insistence: place everything, absolutely everything, into the hands of God’s goodness. Not because we are careless, but because we are loved. Not because life is simple, but because Goodness is deeper than every complexity we carry.
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There is a line in the Serenity Prayer that has been lingering with me lately: accepting hardships as the pathway to peace. It’s a sentence that doesn’t rush, doesn’t promise ease, doesn’t pretend that peace is found anywhere other than in the very places we would rather avoid.
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There is something astonishingly hopeful in the idea that strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. The very energies that once pulled us away from God can, when surrendered, become the fuel that draws us home. Nothing in us is wasted, not our longing, not our intensity, not even our mistakes. All of it can be gathered into grace.
Continue reading “Loving Ourselves Through Christ”Lately the Old Testament prophets have been speaking to me with a kind of immediacy I didn’t expect. Their voices so ancient, so fiery, so tender have been threading themselves into my prayer in ways that feel both grounding and strangely new.
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There comes a point in every caregiving journey when you realize that the work you are doing is not simply practical, it is spiritual. You are tending not only to a body that falters, but to a soul navigating the mystery of decline. You are witnessing the slow unwinding of strength, the narrowing of independence, the surprising betrayals of memory, mobility, and clarity. And you are offering yourself, your time, your patience, your presence as a shelter in that storm.
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There’s a Jesuit truth that feels almost startling in its simplicity: “Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way.” Not because love is sentimental, but because love roots the entire Christian life. When love is the source, obedience becomes joy rather than duty, and worship becomes truth rather than performance.
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We yearn quietly and deeply for the simplicity of wholeness in Christ. Something in us knows that life becomes truest when it is aligned with God’s design, when our days flow in the direction of praise, trust, and love.
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The Saints give us an example of how to be holy. St. Bonaventure offers us a gentle reordering of how we “come to know.” Instead of grasping for certainty, he invites us to place ourselves where learning can happen, where something larger, truer, and more mysterious might meet us. This is opening space for the sacred that is already there.
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Smitten With Goodness 