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Tears as Treasure
So often when women visit my office and sit in the “chair of weeping,” they begin with apologies for their tears. I assure them: tears are an anointing. In fact,...
Holy by His Standards
“You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” That’s the disheartening sentiment that I usually mumble to myself when, in my efforts to do or say something good,...
A God of Intimacy
When I was eighteen, I began studying at Arizona State University. In the sea of 65,000 students, I no longer had a name. I became a number: #1200045547. I did...
Remember to Use the Turn Signal
We have all experienced it. The priest tells us to “go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life,” and ten minutes later, I suddenly forget how to use the...
Calling Me Back Again and Again
I fail and fall short. I mess up time and time again. I sin, confess them, and sin again. And yet, He never tires of me. His pursuit never ends....
But Are We Choosing Him?
Throughout all of our lives, we're called to become more and more like Jesus. And today we hear that Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself, and He was obedient—even to...
Spiritually in Training to Be Like Him
Amidst all the talk of the blind leading the blind, hypocrites, wooden beams, and splinters, there is a line of today’s Gospel (Luke 6:39-42) I never noticed: “No disciple is...
Holy and Beloved
Holy and beloved. Those are the words that Saint Paul uses to describe the believers in Colossae in today’s First Reading. (See Colossians 3:12.) And because we believe that Scripture...
One Day, Each Day, One Choice
I find the Beatitudes in today's Gospel hard. (See Luke 6:2-26.) Hard to understand, hard to practice. They feel to me somehow esoteric and lofty, when I know in reality...
Prayer in the Gaps
Have you prayed with a child? It’s a sweet and humbling experience. I get to do it nightly with my children. When my son was a toddler, I prayed for...
Withered Hands, Withered Hearts
Why haven’t you asked Me to heal this? The Lord prodded my heart as I reflected on the particular physical suffering He brought to my mind. Admittedly, I was a...
Welcome Him as You Would Me
What is the warmest welcome you have ever received? Mine was when I traveled to Hawaii to train youth ministers on four separate islands. On each island I was given...
