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Perfect Love Drives Out Fear
As someone who is engaged in a likely lifelong battle with perfectionism, 1 John 4:18 tends to shake me up a bit. “Perfect love drives out fear.†Seems simple enough. If I want to live fearlessly, I just need to love God perfectly.
Silence, Please
My turn was coming and I didn’t have an answer—at least not one that I felt comfortable sharing with the group. “What are you hoping to get from this weekend?†the sister running our women’s retreat had prompted.
His Light Arisen Upon You
On a recent retreat I led, a woman approached me at the break looking for a little support.
She slowly and sheepishly shared with me that her dreams were overrun with demons, terrible, graphic visions of malevolent spirits overtaking people and possessing them. Sometimes she knew those under attack, more often she didn’t. She would awake filled with terror and dread, completely unrested. This affliction had been with her some time.
Your Radiance from Him
"Rise up in splendour, Jerusalem. Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you" (Isaiah 60:1). I don't have much Scripture memorized, but I do have a...
Finding What We are Looking For
"What are you looking for?" he asked me. We were sitting outside of the coffee shop on a breezy Sunday afternoon. "What are you looking for in a relationship?" he...
Know Your Name
Our names tell a story from the moment they were written on a birth certificate. Some names have been passed down generation after generation. Others have been on the "when...
The Day After
“You know my least favorite days of the year?” I look up, bemused at my oldest son, ready for a proclamation. “The days after a holiday,” he declares with a...
Gathering Treasures in My Heart
One afternoon, I dialed the numbers I've known for most of my life. I had a question for my mom. The spiritual life is meant to be shared, but there...
Tucked into His Sacred Heart
"And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us" (John 1:14). He was sick that day, it turns out. The day he hadn't come to classes, the day...
New
NEW. I’d always seen it as a word demanding action, resolution, a shedding of my former self to chase a “better” self. “This New Year,” shouted the world, “will be...
Following His Difficult, Loving Way
Today, on the Feast of the Holy Family, I am grateful. Particularly because I am reminded by our readings today that above all, my call is to put on love...
Tugging on Knots that Squeeze You Tighter
Hunting is not one of those hobbies I list in my repertoire, but I’ve watched and read enough period dramas to get the gist of how a snare works. It’s...
