Sometimes grace finds us in the most unexpected places even in the ladies’ room of a busy restaurant.
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Tag: Wisdom
Hope in the New Day
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.
Continue reading “Hope in the New Day”Reminder In The Little Way
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.
Continue reading “Reminder In The Little Way”A Love That Widens
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”When We Miss the Point of the Story
Every one of us carries ideas sometimes beautiful, sometimes inherited, sometimes unexamined about what the Creator wants from us. That’s part of being human. But trouble begins when we claim to possess God’s only true intentions for all humanity and then use that claim to reject or exclude others. In those moments, we begin to resemble the very cadre of Pharisees Jesus confronted so sharply.
Continue reading “When We Miss the Point of the Story”Choosing Wisely—Like Solomon
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”Layers of God’s Love
There were multiple experiences at Mass this week that stayed with me long after I walked out the doors, quiet insights that settled into my heart that kept unfolding. The Gospel spoke of the merchant searching for fine pearls, and suddenly the image shifted for me. I wasn’t just imagining the merchant. I was imagining the pearl.
Continue reading “Layers of God’s Love”Living What Matters
Each day we live is a small reflection, a microcosm of our whole life. The choices we make, the desires we follow, the attention we give… all of it quietly reveals what we value most. And if we are honest, many days slip by without our hearts ever pausing to ask the deeper question: Is this drawing me closer to God?
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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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Recently I was contemplating Paul’s words in Romans 8:38–39 which ring with a kind of holy defiance: there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. Not death. Not life’s troubles. Not the shadows that move through the world or the shadows that move through our own hearts. Nothing above us or beneath us. Nothing now or later. Nothing at all.
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Smitten With Goodness 