When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Tuesday, August 09, 2022

A Gift of Grace

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Six years ago today, something profound happened. In fact, it was so profound that six years later I know I'm only beginning to take it ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Pentecost Retreat

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So, this last weekend, Pentecost weekend, I was on retreat at Little Portion Hermitage and Monastery in Arkansas, the home of the Brothers a...
Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Well, it was Clear When I Started

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Yesterday was the Feast of the Visitation, and something in the Scriptures for the Mass struck me significantly. It wasn't that I felt a...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

And I Will Give You Rest

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  Come to me, all you who labor and are weary, and I will give you rest, says the Lord.  I feel like, ever since Easter hit, I have been mos...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Christian Identity; Christian Prayer

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 Here's what I'm hearing. Christian prayer is immersion into Christian identity. Christian identity is a spiritual reality, and come...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Who Am I, Anyway

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 I love the song " The Secret of Time " by Charlie Peacock. There's a line in there that speaks to me today: "The moment...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Butterfly Release

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Today is Good Friday. I'm not quite clear whether technically the Triduum is Lent, or if it is uber-Lent, but regardless, I am pausing t...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Gratia non tollit naturam, sed perficit; And Community

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The Lord has been faithful to pour out His graces to me this Lent; and I hope to be more faithful than I have been to be attentive and respo...
Friday, April 08, 2022

What is Prayer

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  As a Secular Carmelite, I have committed myself to a 30 minute slot of mental/silent/interior prayer every day. Let me tell you what this ...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Union of Wills: A Lenten Breakthrough

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This morning's gospel  and the homily I heard on it helped turn on some lights for me to see and name a problem I have danced with for ...
Sunday, April 03, 2022

One Day You Shall Laugh

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Listening at today's Mass was a completely different experience than it was when I wrote about this on Sunday, March 20. Today was an ex...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

But Wait... There's More

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When I was 14 I hit my first spiritual crisis. I had been confirmed the year in my Lutheran church and had started high school, my first exp...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Birthing Grace

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I had frankly forgotten how well writing serves me. Life has seasons, and like anything organically growing, seasons change and all that. Bu...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Unless you Forgive

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I gently employed the same prayer approach today at Mass as Sunday, looking for the Lord's gaze at me through the Scriptures. It was the...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

The Gospel Has Eyes

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Today is Sunday. I went to Mass this morning with this prayer: to find God's gaze on me in His Word.  This book that I love so much, The...