Awakening to Goodness
God meets us in truth, not performance.
Day 4 — A Gentle Landing
Tag: Lent
Day 3 — Receiving Before Doing
Awakening to Goodness
We often enter Lent with plans and promises, but renewal begins with receiving.
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Awakening to goodness
Renewal often begins with paying attention. God’s presence is woven into the ordinary, waiting to be recognized in the small joys and quiet mercies of the day. As mental-health leaders encourage people to notice “micro-moments of joy,” we can receive that as a spiritual invitation too.
Continue reading “Day 2 — Noticing What Is Already Good”Day 1 — The First Turning
Awakening to Goodness
Lent begins with a simple movement of the heart—a quiet turning toward God who is already turned toward us. Ignatian spirituality reminds us that grace is always at work in the ordinary, inviting us into deeper relationship.
Continue reading “Day 1 — The First Turning”40 Days of Renewal: Sitting With Goodness
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.
Continue reading “40 Days of Renewal: Sitting With Goodness”Falling in Love Again
Lent is two days away. That usually means penance, abstinence, suffering. Or so we might think.
If the thought of Lent this year makes you feel weighed down, oppressed even, as if the practices are just one more thing to “do,” then it may be time for a gentle reboot.
Continue reading “Falling in Love Again”Do You Know How to Pray?
The Spirit prompted me to send you this reminder on how to pray and ask you to contemplate the gift of prayer.
Continue reading “Do You Know How to Pray?”A Cheerful Spirit
Cheerfulness strengthens the heart and makes us persevere in a good life. Therefore as Christian’s we ought to always be in good spirits. How is your cheerfulness barometer today? God’s grace calls us towards love and cheerfulness. In this Easter season we are keenly aware of our neediness of Christ’s saving grace.
Continue reading “A Cheerful Spirit”The Door of Something More
I’ve always been fascinated with doors. Mainly on vacation in foreign countries I snap pictures of interesting doors as I stroll down the historical streets especially in Europe.
Continue reading “The Door of Something More”All Is Gift
St. Ignatius of Loyola is known for saying
“All is gift.” Ignatian spirituality carries this message forward, inviting us to find God in all things. Everything around us, both beauty and suffering, can speak of God.
Smitten With Goodness 