When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

The Gospel Is Not Complicated; I Am

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I've been thinking a lot lately about this image of undoing knots. I've often told my son about how one of Mary's titles is Our ...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

How in the World Did I Get Here?

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Do you ever have one of those moments where reality flashes before you (in a good way) and you ask yourself "How in the world did I get...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

God Gives me the Desire of my Heart; I Whine a Little

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It seems that God knows better than to talk to me about prices when we are out shopping. Ok, yes, that's a bit weird. I don't mean...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Vocation: the Call of God

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The Scriptures the liturgy proposes to us today focus on the call of God. There is the boy, Samuel, whom God calls but who does not recogni...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Where There is no Love, Put Love; and so Draw Out Love

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St. John of the Cross famously said, "Where there is no love, put love, and you will draw out love." I've learned something ...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Praying for What I Want

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Today I was at a prayer group meeting, a really beautiful, honest, candid time of sharing needs and interceding. And while we were doing t...
Monday, January 05, 2015

Prejudice Uprooted Before my Very Nose

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I have a late night Eucharistic adoration hour. I love it. There is something about consciousness at that hour that makes everything seem a ...
Saturday, January 03, 2015

And This is Why I Love Epiphany

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God frequently seems to use the liturgy and liturgical feasts to teach me personal things. Sometimes the nature of how this works is that so...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

Powerful Moment: Love Without Violence

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A few days before Christmas, I came across this video (if the video doesn't appear, you can try hovering over "Post," or click...
Monday, December 22, 2014

The Redemption of Fantasy Addiction

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Here is another quote that struck me recently: "Just imagine what Mary was actually saying in the words, 'I am the handmaid of ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Loneliness and Christian Emptiness

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Earlier this week, I came across this quote which speaks volumes to me: God looked over the world for an empty heart -- but not a lonely...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Hope, Heaven, "Epiphanic Pointers"

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I value words highly. I especially value words that are able to convey something that is deeply meaningful to me. Sometimes I'm not able...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

When Weirdness Gives Way to Delight

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This has been a strange Advent for me thus far. But if ever I have known a peace that surpasses understanding and a joy that makes no earthl...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Intercession Evolution

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This morning at Mass something prompted me to think about the path on which God has led me in learning to intercede for others. There was ...
Saturday, December 06, 2014

Insecurity, Conformity, Freedom

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Our Lord has a way of coming on pretty strong sometimes. Don't know how else to put it. It's been one of those times of late. It is ...