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What it (Really) Looks Like to Keep the Sabbath
When I was a first-year high school teacher, I was very busy. Most mornings I would leave the house at 6am with my housemate (a fellow teacher) and drive the...
If You Don't Want To, Here's How To
From time to time, I get a case of the "I don't wanna" when I think about the adult responsibilities on my plate. I don't want to spend an hour...
A Bent-Necked People
In today’s First Reading, Moses refers to his fellow Israelites as “stiff-necked.” Picture someone with a stiff neck—chin up, stubborn, proud! This was the wickedness and sin that was rampant...
Give Me Only Your Love
The gentle warmth of the May sun shines upon my face. I cannot help but smile. My heart knows a deep peace in this moment—that abiding peace which only Christ...
What Makes My To-Do List
The kitchen door bangs as my daughter appears in flip flops and a well-loved ballet tutu, cheeks flushed, a large bunch of dandelions gripped in her sweaty hand. “I brought...
Turn It into Love, My Friend
My day is filled with countless opportunities for sacrifice, for prayer, and for love. It is also filled with opportunities for grumbling and pessimism, self-pity and regret. The funny thing...
Less is More
More. It’s a dirty word for me. I suppose it came to be so from knowing so well the weighty burden of less. “Less is more,” they say. But I...
Cultivating Fertile Soil in Your Soul
Gardening season is in full swing where I live. That means many hours spent outside ripping out weeds, amending soil, and furrowing rows to begin the many months process of...
Let Go and Grow
There are times when I feel like a circus performer, tossing balls in the air and hoping I don’t drop any of the glass ones . . . or walking...
Struck Down But Not Destroyed
The last few days have been rough. Not for myself, but for those around me. So many of my friends are carrying heavy crosses, but do you know what’s the...
You Are Not Your Past
“Whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) Today is the feast day of Saint Mary...
Follow Him or Following Me, Myself, and I?
My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord, I know them, and they follow me. (John 10:27) A painting hung in the school corridor of my first grade building. The...
