by Linda Cherek | Nov 16, 2021 | Featured Image
Thanksgiving is upon us and then Advent and Christmas will follow. This time of the year offers us an opportunity to reflect, remember and reassess many aspects of our life. We think of gratitude during Thanksgiving, all the parts of our life for which we are...
by Lindsay McGlynn | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured Image
The other day a friend of mine offered a new way to understand patience. As he spoke of his 11-year-old son, he slowly and thoughtfully said, “Patience is a letting go.” When I think of myself at my most impatient moments, they are the times I am most wrapped up in...
by Carolyn Kolovitz | Aug 20, 2021 | Featured Image
Sometimes all the violent men in the news really wear me down. The Taliban in Afghanistan and shootings, sexual assaults and domestic violence in Minnesota are heavy on my heart. It makes me wonder how Jesus’ message of peace might have had a more transformative...
by Linda Cherek | May 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Two weeks ago I was at a four-day silent Ignatian retreat for women. For introverts a silent retreat is a brief experience of heaven on earth. We were all present to and with one another, yet without the spoken word. I had not been on retreat for myself in...
by Linda Cherek | Dec 22, 2020 | Featured Image
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the...
