When God Blog-Bombed Me

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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...
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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