The season of Advent leading to Christmas comes with darkness. It can feel heavy with tender memories, unmet wants and dreams. It also comes like dawn. As the season progresses so do the colors and the light. Light that cannot be overcome. Light that comes to us as God incarnate in a child.
I am thankful for my Ignatian spirituality. In this time of such discontent and unknowns, the constant of God being in all things settles me.
Realize that Sacred moments will be revealed when we pause. When we Abide as God wants us to Abide. Connected to the vine and sustained with Love.
We are all loved by God. That is unchanging. Anywhere and everywhere. For everyone. Knowing this may help in the healing.
Singing “Alleluia”, “Praise the Lord” does not always fit.
Middle years come with the feeling of being homesick. The feeling when remembering the calm while being rocked as a young child. Absorbing the beat of my father’s heart as it bumped along the dull humming of “Home on the Range”. The rush that comes when walking into...
We come to December 21 every year. The longest night. Sun setting earlier every day, even if it’s seconds it can feel like minutes. Hours earlier. Each day.
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. Psalm 46:5 One profound memory during this pandemic was in Holy Week. A week that reveals human nature at its worst...
8 So they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9 Suddenly Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" And they came to him, took hold of his feet, and worshiped him. -Matthew 28: 8-9 Happy Easter! He is risen! He is risen, indeed! ...
Gospel John 11:39-45. 39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days." 40 Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the...
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