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Hidden Life and the Front of the Line
"For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last" (Luke 13:30). I closed my eyes kneeling on the carpet in this hotel...
Simple, Steady, Strengthened by God
We don't often see the little things we do as significant, but God notices every small move we make. I remember when I was training for a half marathon. In...
Special People & Special Names
My favorite grandparent was my mom's dad whom we called "Papa." A quiet, gentle soul, I always felt safe and at ease in his presence. Some of my earliest memories...
The Interior Life Longs to See Him
The last time I had visited Mountain Charleston, I wasn’t a wife or a mother yet. This time, I stood, surveying the pine trees in front of me, inhaling the...
The Value of an Eternal Soul
My stomach tightened into a hard, sick knot as the news flashed across the screen. Another tragedy of incomprehensible evil. More precious lives lost. Hundreds of souls caught unaware. A...
Lord of My Life
I walked into the first day of religion class at my Catholic high school. My eyes fell on the bulletin board at the back of the room. In bold, big...
No Exchanging Prisons
I exhaled, communicating my fatigue to my friend on the other end of the telephone. I was in strong throws of situational anxiety and my hope was wringing out with...
The One Who Sets You Free
Fear, shame, powerlessness, and hopelessness. For years, these were the four walls that surrounded me, with a roof of isolation and a floor of unworthiness. That was the space I...
God's Will In Our Mundane Tasks
I have a wall in our bedroom that I covered with pictures of quotes and one of them says, "I want and I choose what better leads to the deepening...
The Wolves Circle But We Have Peace
The wolves are circling. They cycle daily through screens that are full of hatred and mouths that are full of deceit. They loop around the news and the gossip and...
Can You Drink the Cup?
As I approached the line for Communion, I felt the words of the Gospel echo in my heart strongly inviting a response. “Can you drink the cup?” Feeling a bit...
Act Like a Child
I’ve learned more than a few things from my dear friend, Beth Davis, so when she told me she was finally convinced on the most effective path to holiness, I...
