This year, I’ve been rediscovering the quiet joy of reading simply for pleasure. For so long, my attention has leaned toward learning, formation, and deepening my relationship with God. But lately, something in my inner landscape has shifted drawing me toward more wonder, more spaciousness, more of what stirs the flames of desire in my own heart.
Continue reading “The Language of Tenderness”
The more I sit with Jesus’s teaching on the Kingdom of God, the clearer it becomes that the Kingdom is not a distant realm or a future reward. It is the present reality of Love made visible, around us, within us, and flowing through us. The Kingdom is wherever Love reigns.
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Detachment is one of the quiet graces of the spiritual life, often misunderstood, often resisted, yet deeply freeing when we finally allow it to take root. It is not about rejecting the world or suppressing desire. It is about loosening our grip on whatever keeps us from God so that our hands, our hearts, and our days can open again to what is truly life‑giving.
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At the beginning of Mass this week, a simple refrain caught my heart in a way I didn’t expect: “Everyone needs compassion… love that’s never failing… let mercy fall on me.
Everyone needs forgiveness… the kindness of a Savior… the hope of nations.”
I continue to ponder this weeks Gospel. This people and their stories are rich soil. There is a moment that stops me: God says to Solomon, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.” It is an open invitation limitless, generous, breathtaking.
Continue reading “Choosing Wisely—Like Solomon”
There is a quiet, liberating grace in discovering the power of and. It is one of the deepest movements of the Spirit—this widening of the heart that allows us to hold truth and tenderness together, strength and vulnerability together, conviction and compassion together.
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“You were made for mission. You were created to serve powerfully. And you will never be truly happy until you find a way to lay down your life for others that engages your talents and abilities,” Matthew Kelly.
As a spiritual director, I often hold these words gently before a directee, not as a command, but as an invitation. They speak to the deep truth that each of us carries a God‑given purpose, a way of offering ourselves that becomes both healing for the world and deeply life‑giving for our own soul. There are many ways we resist happiness and this is one.
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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.
Continue reading “Spacious and Intimate”
Wildflowers have no strategy. No five‑year plan. No anxious scanning of the horizon determining what’s next or preparing for every situation that might arise.
They simply grow.
Continue reading “Worry Like the Wildflowers”
I recently spent a few quiet days in Gulf Breeze, Florida, letting the salt air and slower rhythm soften the edges of my life. In that stillness, I found myself returning to Jesus’ familiar parable of the sower and to the question beneath it: What kind of soil is my heart these days?
Continue reading “The Soil of Our Hearts”
