The Church celebrates Saint John the Baptist today, the wild, desert‑dwelling forerunner of Christ whose life was anything but conventional. He dressed strangely, lived simply, spoke boldly, and carried a fierce devotion to the One who was coming. Yet beneath all his prophetic fire, John was known most for his great love, a love courageous enough to give his whole life away.
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Water has a way of teaching us what the soul already knows but forgets: that life is not always meant to be carried. Sometimes it is meant to carry you.
Continue reading “A Day in the Water: A Drift Toward Rest”
We are made for great things, not the loud, attention‑seeking kind, but the quiet, courageous tasks that shine with God’s goodness. St. John Eudes reminds us that we undertake these tasks not by our own strength but by the grace that flows from the One who is Goodness itself.
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Life can be a struggle in ways we never expect. Some seasons ask more of us than we feel we have to give. And when someone we love dies by suicide, the weight of that struggle becomes almost indescribable, disorienting and the ordinary seems impossible. Hope can feel out of reach.
If you’re in that tender place or walking beside someone who is, I wanted to pass along the following:
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Recently I was reading a passage from St. John Henry Newman that invites a deep kind of contemplation. He spoke of a God who knows all things because God has made all things: every particle of matter, every movement of mind, every hidden intention of the soul. This sparked the idea in me that nothing in us is lost to God and nothing is unseen.
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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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Sometimes grace finds us in the most unexpected places even in the ladies’ room of a busy restaurant.
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Some mornings, hope arrives quietly, slipping through the narrow slats of my plantation shutters as a bright, insistent beam of sun. It’s astonishing how something so simple can steady me. That brightness feels like a whisper from God, a reminder that this is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
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In a world that feels increasingly overstimulating with so many voices, so many demands, so many complexities, I find myself returning again and again to St. Thérèse’s Little Way. There is something profoundly relieving about its simplicity. It gives my soul room to breathe. It reminds me that holiness is not found in grand gestures or heroic feats, but in small acts of trust, surrender, and love.
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Over the past few years, I’ve been being drawn to the richness of cultural diversity more than ever before. These colors, languages, wisdom traditions, and ways of seeing the world stretch far beyond my own upbringing.
Continue reading “A Love That Widens”
