When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Available

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I am constantly just beginning to learn things about the spiritual life. Last night as I was tired earlier than usual I pulled St. Fau...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Yeah, Basically my Life has Always Been this Weird.

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Memories can provoke a whole assortment of responses. Bad memories can depress or frighten and good memories can bring comfort and a smile. ...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

One Red Marble

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I have certain memories that stand out like parables that I return to again and again. Recently I found myself thinking about this one. It...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Lent: Face to Face with Love

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So, what is this Lent thing all about, anyway? Recently I was talking with my spiritual director about Lent, and I got one of those Go...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

The Importance of Saying Yes

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I get the sense that right now it is very important for Christians to say yes to the crosses that Jesus hands them. Suffering comes to all...
Sunday, February 01, 2015

Intercession Basics

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I spend some time each day interceding for various individuals, groups, and areas. Over time, I have boiled down the way I pray for the at-l...

Learning to Pray, Part I

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It seems like there is nothing like the act of praying to teach one how to pray. In the last several years, as I have written about in oth...
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...