We rounded the corner of our house after being away for a while and gasped. Tire tracks churned through the yard. Piles of rocks and flagstones, uprooted from the old terrace, lay everywhere. The back yard was a rough sea of mud and debris. “My garden!” was all I could think. Everything from lilies to […]
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HOW WE CAN CARRY OUR CROSSES
Friday the 13th seems an appropriate day to be heading into Saturday’s Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. It brings to mind another Friday, the one that we call “good” — although it must have seemed anything but “good” to the disciples who witnessed it. But here is the glory of the Cross: […]
ALWAYS LOOK OUT FOR NUMBER ONE (Who’s Number One?)
“Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God….” (Ruth 1:16) These words have been sung at countless weddings – but they were first said not by a bride but by someone who turned her back on the sensible option […]
THE ABC’S OF READING ST. PAUL—and an example to encourage you
I wouldn’t call St. Paul the master of the tweet. It would take three full tweets, in fact, to cover 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 — and that’s one of his shorter quotables. But it’s definitely worth sending out to your friends, if only they’ll pause long enough to take it in: “Blessed be the God and […]
ARE YOU LISTENING? GOD WANTS TO SPEAK
I was five and we were vacationing on Lantau island. Today an airport crowns the Hong Kong mountain. Back then, it hosted scores of families seeking respite from the summer heat. The tiny cabins were separated from the main peak, where we took meals at a common dining room, by a “saddle”: a flat, grassy […]
NEW RELEASE! Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God’s Call With Purpose and Joy
Have you ever wondered how to follow God and trust him, even when you don’t know where you’re going … or you feel inadequate … or you’re alone or your world is falling apart? How do you DO that? How do you know you can trust God? In Becoming Women of the Word: How to […]
MOVIE NIGHT: A Lesson in Prayer from “Little Big Man”
Near the end of Little Big Man, the 1970 film with Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, and Chief Dan George, the aged medicine man—who has survived the massacre at Wounded Knee and seen victory at the Battle of Little Big Horn—prepares to die. On a high, lonely mountain he sings and dances before the god he […]
TRUST GOD, THE DIVINE ARTIST
The artist stands a full hour in the clearing, staring at the aspen trees. Her keen eyes trace the form of the trunks, feeling the way they curve back from the center; she explores the knots and crevasses, memorizing the patterns and colors of the bark. Later, she will sketch the tree from memory, then […]
PUZZLING OUT THE TRINITY: What does it mean to me?
Father. Son. Holy Spirit. Why does it matter that God is three-in-One? Why do we celebrate this day? It doesn’t help me to think about a three-leaf clover, or of H20 as water, ice and steam. I still can’t wrap my head around it. I want to know first why it matters to my life. […]
A WINDOW INTO HEAVEN & THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS
It’s one thing to know something in your head. It’s quite another to feel it in your bones. I had that experience recently in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Dr. Edward Sri, who led our pilgrimage, had told us in advance what to expect: the grand central basilica, built over the graves of early Christians; […]
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