Sister Thea Bowman’s words on cosmic spirituality have been echoing in me: her insistence that to know God in the fullness of reality, we must learn “new languages… new rhythms… new ways of glorifying the Lord.” Something in that feels like the very invitation God has been whispering into my own life, a widening of vision, a new way of seeing who God is and how God moves across the world.
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Growth rarely feels gentle at first. It stretches us, unsettles us, and asks something real of us. As Matthew Kelly writes, “Growth is often on the other side of discomfort. A muscle only grows through resistance. A seed has to be buried and split open before it becomes a tree. Gold is refined by fire… Growth often begins where comfort ends.”
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Deep within each of us lies a hidden design, a sacred blueprint inscribed by God. It whispers who we are and who we are meant to become. Like a seed carrying the promise of a tree, the soul holds the pattern of truth, goodness, and beauty waiting to unfold.
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Christ rising in us is not a distant truth but a living reality, often hidden beneath the noise and busyness of our days. When we pause long enough to notice, when we awaken to the presence of God embracing all things, including us, we find our posture shifting. We begin to desire availability rather than activity, surrender rather than striving.
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Lately I’ve been sitting with the idea of perspective and how quietly it shapes our days, our reactions, our relationships, even our faith. It’s astonishing how quickly our view can narrow without us noticing. One worry, one conflict, one headline, one disappointment, and suddenly we’re looking at life through a pinhole.
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Jesus’ words, “Learn from Me, for I am meek and humble of heart,” are not simply an invitation to admire Him, they are an invitation to be formed by Him. Meekness and humility are not soft virtues; they are the quiet strength that comes from trusting God more than our own striving.
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So much of our world right now is filled with anxious questions around technology, especially around AI. The fear is understandable. New things unsettle us. They expose how little control we actually have.
I work around some crazy smart computer scientists and engineers. One of which is Luay Nakhleh, Dean, George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing, Rice University. He has me thinking that there is a deeper invitation beyond if AI is good or bad. There is a more honest and more revealing question: What am I doing with this thing and what is it doing to me?
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Sometimes I think we forget just how expansive God’s dream for the world really is. We shrink it down to the size of our comfort, our circles, our assumptions. But the God revealed in Jesus keeps breaking those boundaries open. His vision is so big, so generous, so overflowing with love that everyone is invited in.
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Some mornings a single line from a saint feels like it reaches out and taps you on the shoulder. Recently it was St. Isidore of Seville: “Reading the Holy Scriptures confers two benefits. It trains the mind to understand them; it turns man’s attention from the follies of the world and leads him to the love of God.” There is something steadying in that reminder. Scripture doesn’t simply inform us—it forms us, shaping both our thinking and our seeing.
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There is a holy quiet at the center of every one of us, a place where God leans close and speaks in whispers. Jesus names this tender truth: What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light. The whisper is always personal, gentle and meant for your heart first.
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Smitten With Goodness 