When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Friday, September 25, 2026

Such a Thing As Glory

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This morning, new pieces are coming together in a naru hodo moment, so here I am. It's more accurate to say that old pieces are coming ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Our Lady of Sorrows

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Today is the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, and I've been wanting to sit down and map some thoughts out for myself that connect here. It...
Monday, September 14, 2026

Ave Crux, Spes Unica!

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I hesitate to describe my penchant for noting anniversary dates of my life as compulsive,  but perhaps ingrained is fair. It is part of my l...
Friday, September 11, 2026

Not Pridefully Nor Begrudgingly

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I went to Mass today at the hospital where I am now employed. It's a very small congregation that shows up for that, and at the beginnin...
Wednesday, September 02, 2026

So, This Finally Made Some Sense...

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I'm going to share about something now that I've hardly thought about for ages, and I don't know that I have ever discussed with...
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...