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Hearts Closed by Stones upon Stones
The words spoken by Jesus in today’s Gospel always remind me of a love song. These words are a love song of redemption and restoration that Jesus sings over each...
Transfiguring Our Expectations
In today's culture, we are bombarded with messages that faithfulness can mean an absence of suffering. They tell us that if we pray hard enough and follow the rules well...
The Gift of Good Shepherds
I sat on a couch with a coffee cup between my hands and listened in amazement to the words coming from his mouth. I hadn’t told him about any of...
Not Today, Satan!
“Not today, Satan!” “Get behind me, Satan!” These have become popular phrases proclaimed by many Christians. But when we are run down, going through personal storms, repeatedly hearing fear and...
This Healing Requires Two Touches
A blind man is led to Jesus. He stands in silent darkness. The crowds beg Jesus to touch him. They have seen the power of His miracles and they come...
Inexhaustible Generosity
“It’ll never happen,” I’d think to myself as the negative test rested firmly in my hand. Because I knew before I could look. That lonely line danced across any sliver...
Parenting Our Children to Win the Battle
Nothing fills me with more anxiety than contemplating the eventual adolescence and early adulthood of my five children. I remember my own high school antics and college lunacy with a...
Where is Your Poverty?
Sometimes, poverty doesn’t look like people reaching their hands out asking for a meal. Sometimes, poverty is something that resides deep in the heart. In today’s Gospel, Jesus cautions "woe"...
A New Little One in the Garden
Today marks the due date of my fourth niece. Depending on when this little one actually chooses to arrive, my brother and sister-in-law are either awaiting her birth in great...
Our Only Good
The movie Titanic came out when I was in the sixth grade, and I was the only one of my friends who was not allowed to watch it. My parents...
Silence Those Inner Critics
As I stared in the mirror, tears streaming down my face, I hated what I was seeing. There I was, two months postpartum with a milk-stained nursing tank top, stretch...
Looking Behind the Resolutions at the Intention
Here we are, one month and a half into the new year. At the beginning of each year, I picture where I want to be at the end of the...
