When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

No, Actually Not Everyone Thinks That Way

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Lately I've been doing quite a bit of reading on Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder . I'd been looking into trauma and the treat...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Words, and Hearts, and Saints

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Part of my morning prayer routine is invoking the intercession of my prayer team of saints. I have a standard team that has been with me for...
Saturday, July 04, 2026

Integration

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Writing, for me, is often about integration. Integration is a quest towards processing change. I change frequently, and hopefully this goes ...
Thursday, July 02, 2026

Thoughts from Today's Gospel: Jesus Heals the Paralytic

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Today's gospel reading is Matthew 9:1-8 , the account of Jesus healing the paralytic. (If you are like me, when you hear this it is hard...
Monday, June 29, 2026

Seeking Persephone

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I watched Seeking Persephone over this last weekend because I kept seeing ads for it on Facebook, and because I remembered I have a Roku acc...
Saturday, June 27, 2026

Every Ending is a Beginning

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My heart is full. Today was the major ending of my Spiritual Direction Formation Program. There are a few more minor endings; two more thing...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

An Unsuspecting Turn Towards Poetry

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This morning I was looking in my Liturgy of the Hours book for a Marian hymn and randomly opened to a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins called ...
Monday, June 08, 2026

Therese, again

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So, it's about time for a "shoot from the hip" post from me. Why the heck not. I'm in the middle of writing an essay on St...
Friday, June 05, 2026

Infilling of Love

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Over the last year I have been actively grappling with the Scripture verse which was the Communion Antiphon of today's Mass. It's a ...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Renovation

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As I prayed Lauds this morning, I hovered for some moments over this passage of Psalm 147: "The Lord builds up Jerusalem, and brings ba...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Of Love and Needs and Clashing

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This morning as I sat down to pray, I had one of those instantaneous downloads that crystalized for me exactly where I'm at in my interi...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

In Which I Relate What I have in common with St. Therese

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I'm in my very final term of my Spiritual Direction Formation Program. It started with a prophetic bang back in September of 2024. There...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Just Look

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A long time ago, when I lived in Japan, I had a dream that has stayed with me. In this dream, I was in my 6th grade classroom (the most diff...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Fulcrum and Lever

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Currently I have the luxury of quite a bit of time which I can give to reflective writing. So I am cashing in on it. I spent the morning med...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

There's Abandonment, and then there's Abandonment

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 Right now, I really need the consolation of coming home from Mass in the morning and sitting down to write.  It's the feast of the Annu...