When God Blog-Bombed Me

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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...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

Re-defining Safety

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This morning, Fr. A. preached about how, when you are going through a seriously trying time (like with his sister who just lost her son) you...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Seeking God, or Self-Harm?

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This morning as I settled into my prayer time, I picked up Divine Intimacy and flipped to the entry for Tuesday of the Second Week of Adven...
Friday, December 06, 2024

Depth of Identity

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Must articulate more thoughts provoked by yet another song.  Because I went down a Yannick Bisson rabbit hole a few months ago (because of ...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Better than a Hallelujah

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 Recently I was reminded again of the song Better than a Hallelujah, which Amy Grant recorded in 2010. From the first that I heard it, it...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Slander, Justice, and Freedom

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This morning as I was talking with the Lord I was reading Mark 7, where He is interacting with Pharisees. Verse 2 sets up where the difficul...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

The Urgency and Simplicity of Love

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It seems that the Lord enjoys inviting me to go spelunking with Him. I am one of those people who, if an invitation seems too good, like too...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Unpacking from SDFP, Intensive 1: Tribalism, Turnips, and the King

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I'm home from the first "intensive" of the Carmelite Spiritual Direction program, and it's time to start unpacking the exp...
Friday, September 13, 2024

Making Peace with Intensity

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Trying to reflect in writing about the training I'm receiving is a little bit like drawing, for a moment a eyedropper full of water out ...

Writing about Writing

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I'm spending some days away at a monastery on a kind of working retreat. It's an intensive training, really, formation in spiritual ...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Hiking, Love, and Transformation

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Eight years ago, I hiked in the Tatra mountains. Come to think of it, it was exactly this time of year I was there. The scenery was beautifu...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Ponderings from Dear Master, Part Two

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Fortunately I marked for myself the second piece that struck me as I was reading Ponderings from Dear Master , which I had intended to write...