When God Blog-Bombed Me

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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...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Aaron's Lesson for Christian Middle Management

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This morning I read Exodus 32, as found in the Office of Readings. A small detail stood out to me that I don't remember noticing before....
Friday, March 06, 2026

Trauma-Informed Lent

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I'm not trying to be trendy with this title; I'm trying to share my heart.  For roughly the last nine months, I've been seeing a...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

How Will I Know (If He Really Loves Me)?

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I was encouraged recently to put some work into what I would say to someone who comes to me with a basic explicit or implict question: Does ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Hello, Again, Hello

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I have been largely absent from this blog this year for several reasons, most of which involve my writing having gone other places. But I...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Learning to Pray All Over Again

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The Carmelite saints and writers describe early stages of prayer in ways that always confused me. For example, Kevin Culligan writes (in his...
Friday, August 08, 2025

Yes, I've Changed Parishes

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On the morning of the feast of St. Martha (and Mary, and Lazarus), a friend who regularly prays Morning Prayer with our group asked me about...
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Wednesday, July 09, 2025

You Can't Make God Happy

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I regularly take BIG breaks from posting on this blog, generally because I am processing my thoughts in writing elsewhere. But like a cat ou...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Snowfall

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This morning, I sat and watched the snow fall against the backdrop of the neighbor's brick house. It started out, just a few small flake...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The Man with the Withered Hand

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What I wanted to write about when I started the last post was the gospel reading from today's Mass: Mark 3:1-6 .  We have in the scene t...

Embodied

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"New year, new me" came with a jolt this year. It was as if the Lord woke me at midnight and said: Ok dear, buckle up. We're g...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Confessions of a Closet Gnostic

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As soon as I type "closet gnostic" I am anticipating one of my more intellectual readers taking me to task for theological impreci...