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Peace in the Storm
Lately, it feels like I have been living in a storm. I am the parent of a child with special health needs and, for the first time since he was...
Transformation of the Shield
I sit in the chapel and come undone, my small form huddled before the God of the Universe. I’m physically exhausted from chronic illness attacks. I’m cradling deep wounds, fighting...
Does Your Love Spill Out?
There was something different about Carla. I was a college student and her oldest child was a freshman in high school, but I didn’t care about the age gap. I...
Ugh, Jealous
Why can’t I pray like she does? How many times have I jealously thought this to myself? I have wondered why others appear to have closer relationships with God. She...
Your Example, Their Encounter
I love Saint Paul, and I love him in the Acts of the Apostles! He was able to speak more concisely than he wrote. (Seriously, in all his letters he...
The Spring Will Come
Spring is starting here in Southern California. After months of an unusually dreary season, the light is beginning to peek through the clouds and the cold, wet ground is beginning...
What Does Remaining Look Like for You?
I remember the relief of not being chosen last for kickball. It wasn’t that I loved kickball. I just didn’t want to feel forgotten. “Pick me! Choose me!” The desire...
The Gentle Light of Mary
On this day 102 years ago a beautiful woman dressed in blazing white appeared to three shepherd children tending a field in rural nowhere, Portugal. Her message to them would...
Keeping Our Gaze on the Shepherd
If you have spent any time at all in church ministry, you know how easy it is for disagreements to surface in the local church. Just spend a little time...
True Presence, Truly for You and Me
I came into full communion with the Catholic Church twelve years ago. A major hurdle to my conversion was the Church’s teaching on the Eucharist—precisely that the bread and wine,...
New Phone, Who's This
Have you ever gotten a new phone, received a text from someone whose number isn't in your phone, and written them back asking, "Who's this?" I have and remember feeling...
Four Reasons I Need the Eucharist
I need the Eucharist for many reasons. The Eucharist grounds me. On the days when I go to Mass but feel distant, distracted, or spiritually dry, it snaps me to...
