Easter morning breaks open with surprise. The stone is rolled away, the tomb is empty, and life has risen where death once reigned.
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Day 40 – The Paschal Triduum: Holy Saturday — The Silence Between
Holy Saturday is a day of silence and waiting, culminating in the Easter Vigil at night. It is the quiet, aching space between loss and resurrection. It is the day when nothing seems to be happening, yet everything is being transformed beneath the surface.
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Returning to Belovedness
There is a quiet freedom that comes when we stop trying to be flawless.
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Returning to Belovedness
So much renewal begins with remembering who we are in God’s eyes.
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I’m loving this idea of the blueprint of the soul where the soul can be imagined as the hidden blueprint of our lives, the deep design God has inscribed within each of us. It is not something we invent or achieve, but something we awaken to…divine nature within us.
Just as a seed carries within it the pattern of the tree it will become, so our soul carries the truth of who we are and who we are called to be.
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There’s a line from an old spiritual writer that has stayed with me:
“Hold everything with a light touch.”
It sounds simple, almost gentle—but it’s actually a bold invitation.
Remaining in the Love That Remains in Us
John’s words in 1 John 4:11–18 draw us back to the very heart of the Christian life: love. Not the fragile, shifting kind we often encounter in the world, but the steady, self-giving love that begins in God and flows through us. “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another.” It’s both a command and a revelation. We love because we have first been loved.
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A Gentle Examen for the New Year
Every so often, the Spirit nudges us to pause, not to judge ourselves harshly, but to look honestly at the shape of our lives. Are we living in a way that reflects the One we claim to follow? Are our habits, our reactions, our desires slowly being formed into the life of Christ?
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Do you need the grace of courage?
In Luke 16:1–8, Jesus tells a surprising parable: a dishonest steward is praised—not for his cheating, but for his resolve. Faced with crisis, he examines his situation, acknowledges his weakness, and acts decisively. Jesus invites us to do the same—not in cunning, but in spiritual courage.
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Our spiritual life is most deeply shaped not by abstract ideas, but by lived experience. The divine is the depth dimension of everything that exists—God as Being itself, dwelling at the core of who we are. When we discover a place of at-homeness within ourselves, we awaken to the unique God-dimension planted in each soul.
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Smitten With Goodness 