March 27, 2025 // Thursday of the Third Week of Lent Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s First Reading: Jeremiah 7:23-28 Reflect on the Word // I had been so excited to meet with this priest who was coming to town. Many of my friends lauded him as kind, gentle, and paternal. So when I received a kind, but strong, rebuke from him in spiritual direction I was angry and seriously annoyed. This was not what I had planned. He was supposed to speak some encouraging words and be on his way! I stormed up to my room and taking a deep breath, I closed my eyes in an attempt to pray. Jesus, I know that he is kind and good but that was . . .  I couldn’t finish my sentence before I was hit with the deep conviction that his rebuke was not only true, but it was also exactly what I needed. Before spiritual direction I had told the Lord, I trust whatever You want to do through this priest, thinking it would be some sort of eccentric spiritual practice. But the reality is that there were certain parts of my heart that needed to mature. I could no longer live as an adult with girlish ways. I knew it was the Father’s will to invite me to live as the woman He created me to be.  I needed to respond differently than Israel had responded to God in today’s First Reading: “This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction” (Jeremiah 7:28). God the Father in His goodness wanted me to become more fully the person that He created me to be. Just like a sculptor has to chip away at the rough bits of his statue, so, too, does the Lord chip away at my rough parts. It is not an act of unkindness but an act of love to not let me settle for less than I was made for. When I cannot see my potential for holiness, He can. When I cannot see the good that can come out of even my own mistakes, He can. The chipping away is painful, but His love makes even the most bitter correction sweet.  When correction from God comes our way it can be easy to shrink away or wince, but the reality is that He is making us something totally new. May we have the grace to not turn away in the face of correction but run straight towards His Sacred Heart to ask for the grace of conversion.  Relate to the Lord // How is Jesus working to make you totally new? How can you cooperate with Him?  

February 5, 2025 // Memorial of Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s First Reading: Hebrews 12:4-7, 11-15 Reflect on the Word //  I had known loneliness in the past, but not loneliness like this. I was heavy hearted from a difficult and hidden situation—not one that I could speak to many about. My exhaustion from it was so much that I could physically feel it some days, being unable to kneel from pain. As I came into the chapel that day for 7 a.m. Mass, I finally related to our Lord how heavily tempted I was to despair in this season and how I could no longer handle the weight of it in this isolation. As the silence passed, I expected some sort of intense “Army boot camp” response of,  “I get it, but toughen up, get it together, and keep going.”  But Christ, in his wisdom and kindness, did no such thing. He did, however, bring me to Gethsemane where He experienced immense temptation, similar to the temptation described in today’s First Reading: “In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood” (Hebrews 12:4). I saw there with Him that God is no foreigner to my suffering under temptation and pressure in darkness. He is no foreigner to feeling alone in it as the disciples, too tired from sorrow, fell asleep rather than stayed awake with Him (see Luke 22:45). I no longer feel alone knowing that Christ has suffered in every way that I do. Christ’s love here moves the deepest part in us as human beings: the need for connection, for relationship, to be seen and understood in our suffering. To have Christ not only as a model for suffering but as a true companion.  While we may not have struggled to the point of shedding blood, we can sit with grateful hearts knowing that our strength and joy comes from the One Who willingly entered into our loneliness and darkness out of absolute and total love. We can know that we are children of God, and our suffering is His suffering. Relate to the Lord // Where do you need Christ to be a companion in your suffering?  

January 9, 2025 // Thursday after Epiphany Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s Gospel: Luke 4:14-22 Reflect on the Word // I walked into the chapel that morning so drained physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I was trying so hard to give out of an empty cup this season. So, like the other mornings that week, I came in with heavy eyelids and a heart that just kept asking: How on on earth am I going to have the strength to give today? As our team prayed out loud that morning to care for the poor and weak around us, I heard the Lord say to me: You are the poor I am talking about.  In the midst of caring for the poor around me, I had lost sight that He wanted to come to my own poor heart as well. More than bringing the Gospel to students, leading Bible studies, making killer spreadsheets for the team, or leading incredible retreats, He wanted to bring me the Good News first. It is in this place and this place only that we can give to others. First, by receiving the Gospel in our own poverty, and then in great joy and fullness bringing the Good News to all others.  The glory of Jesus fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy is in Him embracing that he has been anointed “to bring glad tidings to the poor” (Luke 4:18-20). His priority is to restore our places of poverty. He wants to bring each and every single one of us the joyful and rich Good News of the Gospel. What an unbelievable joy to know that we do not graduate from being poor, but to know that it is precisely in our poverty that Christ comes to bring His goodness, His strength, His anointing, and His love.  I have no doubt we will all be asked to bring the “glad tidings” of the Gospel to the poor in our vocations as spouses, mothers, daughters, sisters, teachers, leaders, or simply as good friends. But we cannot forget that we must first let the Lord bring the Good News to the poverty in our own hearts. This is His great joy and what He has been anointed from the beginning of time to do.  Relate to the Lord // Reread the Gospel today. What poverty in your heart do you need Jesus to touch?

My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me. // John 10:27 (From the Alleluia)  What is Your voice, Lord? And what is it not? I found myself asking every day in prayer during a difficult season of my life. There were many voices coming at me, well intentioned, but all of them contradicting each other, which sent me into even more confusion. I was desperate to hear His voice, no matter what it would cost me.  As I prayed and asked the Lord for guidance, I finally heard His voice. It was rare that I received such clarity about what to pray with, but He led me to today’s Alleluia verse (John 10:27). Through it, He invited me to stay with the Good Shepherd and learn to trust His words wherever they may lead. I did not know how much fear was holding me back from doing His will. To listen to His voice meant to obey His call, even if it would cost me everything. In that moment I needed to surrender deeper than my heart had known before.  Sister, perhaps you, too, have been in a season where you desire ardently to hear the Shepherd’s voice and yet fear what He will say. The fear here can be so real, so crippling, and so dark, but His promise is one of peace and freedom. Wherever He leads you, He goes with you on the way. What is one thing you may have been holding back from asking the Lord out of fear of what He will speak? Bring that to Him today. Pray to Him: My sweet Shepherd, help me to follow You even if I fear Your voice. Give me the grace to trust that You only have goodness and kindness coming every step of the way.

For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. // Galatians 5:1 Every day was laborious, tiresome, and altogether just dry. It seemed as if I had been wandering in the desert for weeks, months, even years. Many days it felt as if I was trying to push an eighteen wheeler with a toothpick. Despite many attempts at solving the problems at hand, the weight of it all got heavier and heavier. Where was this abundant life that had been promised? Where was this freedom I have preached about time and time again? What about the easy yoke? What am I doing wrong? I kept asking myself.  As I sat in a chapel after another exhausting day, I asked the Lord that same question: What am I doing wrong, Jesus? His answer floored me as He responded by giving me a mental image. There I was under the yoke with Him, but trying to go at a way faster pace than His. I was choking. My yoke, My speed, He said to me. I knew what He meant. I needed to seriously slow down. Through my busyness and my good desire to serve in His Kingdom, I had taken my eyes off of Him and lost the pace and speed that He wanted for me. I had not heeded Christ’s offering of freedom, as Saint Paul talks about in today’s First Reading (Galatians 5:1), and I became a slave to my own timing and to my own pace.  Sister, even our good desires to serve the Lord can put us under a yoke of slavery when we don’t discern His will for us. If you are feeling burned out or tired, ask Him to show you where in the yoke you are with Him. Are you trying to head in the opposite direction? Are you going in the right way but perhaps too quickly? Are you digging your heels to not go forward? He wants your freedom. He knows the pace and the direction you need. Will you let Him show you what that looks like today?

“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nail marks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” // John 20:25 Could you really love me like this, Lord?  Maybe I shouldn't go to Mass; I am too broken.  Perhaps I am really too far gone.  These were words that often ran through my mind that year before stepping into a chapel, and, while they usually went away, this time they stuck. I had given my life back to the Lord earlier that year and so desired to feel at peace with Him. But Mass after Mass, I still came in anxious and dripping in shame. All through Mass I prayed and prayed until I finally came to my wits’ end.  I received the Eucharist and felt no consolation. In desperation, and with a boldness I had not known previously, I prayed, I will not walk out of this chapel until You heal me. I am not taking no for an answer. And a miracle He gave me.  Moments after praying that prayer, I ran into two Dominican sisters whose pure gaze that night melted the final remnants of shame on my heart. I couldn’t sleep that night, for I was so giddy and happy. While I was tempted to feel sheepish about my bold and honest prayer, all I could do was laugh at His generous love and delight and good humor. I was daring to be sure, but He was all the more delighted.  Sister, since that moment I have related to Saint Thomas in today’s Gospel (see John 20:24-29). His words were demanding no doubt, but paved the way for Christ to come in His mercy and show off His goodness to Saint Thomas. I know there may be prayers in your own heart that seem too bold to be prayed, but He desires to hear them and to show you the abundance of His heart. He is not surprised by your boldness; in fact, He is honored by it. Where is one place in your heart where He is inviting you to be bold and honest today?

Rejoice and be glad; for your reward will be great in heaven. // Matthew 5:12  I had been so discouraged that semester by how little fruit had come from the mission. It was my first year as a missionary and we were serving on a brand new campus under grueling COVID restrictions. We fasted, we prayed, we begged, and yet did not see much movement in the apostolate the first few months. I wanted to see fruit and I wanted to see it now, but as I prayed the Lord began to show me my many imperfect reasons for wanting to see immediate fruit in the apostolate.  Mingled in with my good desires to bring Christ to our students were also my desires for my own reward. It was then I saw in my heart that I wanted my reward for the mission to be given to me now through the visible conversion of my students. In His kindness and through a gentle rebuke, He showed me that much of the fruit of this hidden apostolate which He called me to would not be shown to me as a “reward” for my labors until Heaven. It was an invitation for my heart to be stretched. Would I give everything the Lord was asking me to this mission even if I did not see the fruit of it while still on this earth?  Sister, many of us are laboring arduously in the vineyard for fruit that may not be for us or others to see. This can be discouraging and altogether frustrating. But in today’s Gospel (see Matthew 5:1-12) the Lord encourages us that we will one day be rewarded for our transformation into holiness through our service to Him. Perhaps that will be in your lifetime, perhaps it will not, but rest assured the reward is coming and most important than all of the fruit you bore will be your union with the Bridegroom Himself.  Today bring to Him one area in your heart for which you long to be rewarded. Ask Him to speak into it and surrender to Him that reward which is His to give in His own time and own way.

Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another intensely from a pure heart. // 1 Peter 1:22  It’s amazing what a drive with the windows down to the music of Taylor Swift can do for a student’s conversion. That was the case that particular night when we drove one of our students around town. “I have never had so much fun!” she told us.  Recently these small moments have been sitting more deeply in my heart. Perhaps because I’ve been so moved by the need for true authentic friendship.  While I’ve seen conferences, Bible studies, or intense conversations through which Jesus loves our students, I have also seen Him do so through a car ride down I-65 South while belting out a break-up song. Or through 1 a.m. conversations about boys and giggling about our friends’ crushes. Or through canceling Bible study and running to the grocery store to get ice cream because it was just that kind of day. All simple moments that may pass us by, but simple moments of pure and absolute sisterly love.  As I sit in a season where I’m tempted to despair on how to love those around me, He reminds me that those who loved me best in hard seasons did so in the most human ways. Whether by a friend sending me a children’s book in the mail or a simple invitation to the grocery store, Jesus has encountered me in that sincere brotherly love from today’s First Reading (see 1 Peter 1:18-25). This love He is inviting us into is often so simple, so human, so mundane that we can miss His invitation to love radically in this way.  Sister, how has the Lord loved you through simple and pure sisterly love? Ask the Lord for just one way in which you can love a friend today. Either by having a mini dance party or calling a night in to watch Pride and Prejudice, ask Jesus to show you how He wants to love those around you through your own particular, unique, and unrepeatable love. You never know what miracles can come from a simple and pure gesture of love. 

“We are witnesses of these things, as is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.” // Acts 5:32 That morning during prayer I had that funny feeling in my stomach that I only had when the Spirit was asking me to move in a courageous way. Really? Here? Now? I skeptically asked the Lord, with my eyes squinting towards the tabernacle a few feet ahead of me. I did not need to hear His voice to know the answer. I knew I needed to do the brave thing, but this moment was different. I knew I wasn’t doing it alone. With sweaty palms and a racing heart I genuflected, briefly crossed myself, and stepped out of the chapel to do what He had asked of me.  That morning I experienced in a very real way His promise in the First Reading (see Acts 5:27-33), namely, the promise of the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him. The Holy Spirit worked in me and through me in a situation in ways I could not have imagined. I had needed to do something I was terrified of doing but that He had made clear needed to happen for the sake of His glory. In a season that for months had been heavy and burdensome, He came as a comforter bringing clarity, resolution, peace, joy, and encouragement through my obedience to Him. It was nothing short of a miracle what He did that morning through prompting me to have courage. And He wants to do the same for you.  Sister, is there a difficult conversation, confrontation, or change that you have been putting off out of fear? Bring it to the Lord and ask how He is asking you to participate in the work of His redemption. He may not be asking you to step as actively into courage as He asked of me that morning, but He may be asking even just for the courage to be honest with Him in these places of your heart. Today, He desires to bless your obedience with the gift of His Spirit. Be not afraid!

“I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals.” // Mark 1:7 I was sitting there attentively listening when it hit me: I had lost sight of the dignity of those around me. While we were gathered together for a meal, one of my friends began talking about the subject of accompaniment. The way he spoke was beautiful and was beginning to unthaw the frozen places in my heart. Quoting our Holy Father Pope Francis, my friend said to me, “Accompaniment 'teaches us to remove our sandals before the sacred ground of the other’” (Evangelii Gaudium § 169). At that moment I remembered the words of Saint John the Baptist about the sandals of his cousin Jesus in today’s Gospel (see Mark 1:7) and saw how much I needed to ask for the grace to step into the humility of this blessed Saint.  After that conversation I took an honest look at why I had lost the reverence for the other in front of me. In my prayer the Lord showed me how I had quietly begun to grow bitter and harsh at how others may not be removing their own sandals before me. I had turned inward and was focusing on what people owed me and not what I could give. I found that I was calculating love rather than creating it, and forgetting that all who I encountered were beloved sons and daughters in whom the Father was “well pleased” (Mark 1:11). I knew it was time to take a deep breath, reassess, and, with His mercy and grace, try again.  Sister, on this blessed Feast of the Baptism of the Lord may we remember that Christ became a Man to draw us all into sonship and daughterhood with Father. May we, like John the Baptist, have the grace to continue to love others out of our love for the Beloved Son, humbling ourselves before the sacred ground of the other, and always choose first to reverence and love. Be not afraid!

“And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently.” // Luke 16:8  I knew all too well what this feeling was of being stiff and frozen in fear. The Lord had just revealed to me a part of my heart that I had overlooked in the last few months. He showed me how I had fallen yet again into that unhelpful habit of murmuring and complaining about even the smallest things. This was an old struggle, yet not something I had struggled with for a while. And now it was clear as day that the last several months I had murmured more under my breath than I had in the previous year.  It was frustrating. There was not much I could do to fix it and go back. And to be honest, I was so embarrassed—with myself, with the Lord, and to those to whom I was complaining. So in this moment of revelation, my heart froze and I did not know how to rid myself of this bad root in my heart, which was bearing a particularly bitter fruit. In many ways my own sin deeply humbled me like the steward in today’s Gospel (see Luke 16:1-8) and gave me a choice of further pouting or acting prudently. How I responded to this realization of my sin mattered more for my present choices than that I had sinned. And in that moment the Lord granted me much undeserved mercy to go forward in the way of blamelessness, thanking Him for allowing me to fall in order to help me further in humility.  Sister, I know all too well what it is like to sit frozen in fear and embarrassment when I have failed to uphold my call to sanctity. But I also know the freedom that comes from not letting fear hold me back from asking for God’s mercy and continuing to strive for virtue and holiness. May we have the grace today to be sincere and honest in our stewardship of our lives. And may we have the courage to humbly ask the Lord for help to continue towards virtue and holiness when we have been dishonest and imprudent in the stewardship to which He has entrusted us.

“No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. ” // Matthew 11:27 It was a hot and sticky New York City summer day. You know the kind where your back sticks to the pew because it’s so darn hot? The air conditioning at my parish was broken for Mass that day and I could not begin to imagine how the friars were feeling in their vestments. Needless to say, we were all in need of a refresher—preferably a new air conditioning system.  Inside my heart, too, was sort of sticky. It felt as though things were moving too slowly inside. I was fresh off a beautiful reversion in the last year, but there was still a sort of residue in my heart. It had been a beautiful seeking of the Father and His goodness, and now I sat with what felt like no more seeking to do. In many good and beautiful ways I saw my reversion as my own pursuit of His heart, but that was only half the story.  “The Father loves you,” the friar said in his homily. He paused just long enough for my own heart to hear, The Father seeks you. Like a fresh glass of cold water I received the same truth we hear in today’s Gospel, mainly that in the last year I had not come to know Christ and the Father through my own efforts. I did not come upon God the Father in New York City by chance. No, from all eternity Christ the Son had chosen this moment in time to reveal to me the greatest secret of His heart. How refreshing!  Sister, any and all encounters with Christ and the Father are because the Blessed Trinity has looked at you in a great desire to be in relationship and communion with you and said, “Let it be.” May you have the grace today to see where Christ has chosen to reveal to you the greatest secret of His Heart, His Father. And may we have the grace to respond with that childlike gratitude for the goodness of and gift of knowing the Heart of God. 

Of mercy and judgment I will sing; to you, O LORD, I will sing praise. I will persevere in the way of integrity; when will you come to me? I will walk with blameless heart, within my house. // Psalm 102:1-3a My heart stopped when I heard Sister say, “There is nothing as beautiful as being single-hearted.” That night when I attended a talk on beauty at the Nashville Dominican Motherhouse, I expected the general Thomistic analysis of beauty and was quite excited to be encouraged by a talk of that sort. But what I did not expect was to encounter hope for beauty in my own heart.  The last year had been nothing short of purifying. It had felt as if all of my weaknesses and failures had been placed under a magnifying glass, and what I found under that exposure was that my heart stood divided. I had a sincere love for God but also a sincere attachment to sin and to self. My heart was in fact not single-hearted and unlike today’s Psalm, I was not walking with a “blameless heart”’ (Psalm 101:3). That night I went home wondering what sort of remedy would allow me to live single-heartedly. Over time, what I have come to find is that in order to live with a pure heart I desperately need to encounter His own blameless, beautiful, pure, and single-hearted Heart.  Sister, our messy and often divided hearts are longing to be purified into hearts that will walk blamelessly and fearlessly towards one Love and one Love only: Jesus Christ. May we, with confident and hopeful hearts, turn to the Shepherd to lead and guide us “in the way of integrity” to walk “with a blameless heart” (Psalm 101:2-2) and begin to shine with a hint of the beauty of which He has created us from all time.

But the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings. // Romans 8:26  I did not think I would fall back so quickly into my old ways, but there I sat on a Thursday morning with hot, silent tears going down my face in embarrassment and frustration.  Really . . . Again? I thought to myself, wiping another tear. I had just come off a silent retreat, and it did not take very long to lose my peace and find myself falling into sinful ways again. I figured I would come down shining and renewed like Moses coming down glowing from Mount Sinai, but instead came back . . . grumpy. Wondering where I had gone wrong in losing my peace from the retreat, I anxiously ran through all the options to retrace my steps. Maybe I needed to redo the meditations or scour my journal, pray another Rosary, or just force myself to get it together or simply give up.  As I sat with my tears of frustration rolling down my face, I heard a whisper in my heart: “Ask the Holy Spirit to pray with you and pray for you. He is rooting for you.” These words silenced me, and it was then I remembered Saint Paul’s own words to the Romans from today’s Second Reading (see Romans 8:26-27). I realized then I was clothed in self-sufficiency instead of supplication and had forgotten the very graces I had received on the retreat.  Sister, for many of us it’s time to shed the self-reliant garment we have been wearing for years—the one that turns us inward and, in blinding us from reality, makes us think we can and should do this on our own. Let the Spirit come to the aid of your weakness. Let Him gently show you the ways in which He desires to provide for you and in you. He has not been sent to stand on the sidelines of your heart judging, but to fight the fight within you. Will you let Him show you where He wants to intercede with and for you today?

"C'est comme une graine de moutarde qui, lorsqu'elle est semée dans le sol, est la plus petite de toutes les graines de la terre." // Marc 4:31 C'était tard le soir au travail et je pouvais sentir le mal de tête dû à l'épuisement physique et émotionnel arriver. La récente transition vers un nouveau travail et une nouvelle ville pesait lourdement sur mon cœur et je me sentais agité. Je ne pensais pas pouvoir raisonnablement appeler un ami à 23 heures un soir de semaine, alors je suis allé dans une petite chapelle. Me dépêchant de prier, j'ouvris ma Bible et mes livres pour trouver une sorte de réponse pour remédier à ce malaise et à cet épuisement. Les minutes passaient et je devenais de plus en plus frustré. Rien ne semblait apporter le repos en moi. J'ai lu et lu, et pourtant je suis devenu encore plus fatigué et épuisé. J'ai crié avec frustration : « Que veux-tu de moi ? L'honnêteté , j'ai entendu dans mon propre cœur. J'ai commencé à réaliser que je n'avais pas offert à Dieu ce qui était vraiment à l'origine de mon épuisement : ma solitude. Ma crainte était que ce soit trop insignifiant, trop petit. J'ai appris cette nuit-là que le Seigneur désire être avec moi à tout moment. Quand je suis seul sur le chemin du retour, quand j'ai eu une interaction épuisante, quand j'ai simplement besoin d'un ami mais qu'il est trop tard, ou quand j'ai juste besoin d'un câlin, il est là. Il s'occupe de moi là-bas. Il a hâte de me rencontrer ici. Aucun de ces désirs n'est trop petit pour qu'Il le remarque. Et souvent, comme la graine de moutarde dans l'Evangile d'aujourd'hui, ce sont les pépinières des plus grandes vérités. Ami, Notre-Seigneur prend grand plaisir à être invité dans ces petits et tendres pépins de moutarde de votre cœur pour y semer la semence d'une intimité qui portera beaucoup de fruits. Puissiez-vous avoir la clarté nécessaire pour voir ces endroits petits mais puissants dans votre propre cœur et le courage de les apporter à Notre Bien-Aimé. Une seule chose est nécessaire; que le pécheur ouvre la porte de son cœur, si peu soit-il, pour laisser entrer un rayon de la grâce miséricordieuse de Dieu, et alors Dieu fera le reste. // Sainte Faustine, Journal de Sainte Faustine (1507)

J'ai prié pour cet enfant, et le SEIGNEUR a accordé ma demande. // 1 Samuel 1:27 En juin dernier, je me suis retrouvé dans un discernement épais et une humidité épaisse du milieu de l'été en Floride. Je venais de terminer mon temps en tant que missionnaire FOCUS et j'ai voyagé du Massachusetts au sud de la Floride pour une retraite dans l'espoir de trouver une sorte de réponse sur ce qu'il fallait faire ensuite. Tout ce que je voulais, c'était de la clarté sur ce qui allait suivre, mais la peur et l'anxiété concernant mes options augmentaient chaque jour. Le premier jour de retraite, je me suis dirigé vers la direction spirituelle et j'ai exprimé mes griefs et mes frustrations. J'ai balbutié : « Je sais qu'il a conclu une alliance avec moi. . . . Je suis juste frustré de ne pas le voir. Elle s'est arrêtée et m'a regardé avec une gentillesse et une douceur extraordinaires et m'a demandé: "Comment tenez- vous votre part de l'alliance?" On entendait une mouche voler dans la pièce. Ses mots m'ont fait taire et, à ce moment-là, j'ai été doué d'une clarté plus grande que d'idées sur ma prochaine perspective d'emploi. J'étais celui qui ne tenait pas ma part de l'alliance. Malgré la fréquentation des sacrements, la prière, la recherche de conseils, je retenais toujours une chose : mon cœur. "C'est tout ce qu'il veut. Peut-être prendre le risque et tout lui donner lors de cette retraite." Je savais qu'elle avait raison. J'avais besoin d'être ré-enraciné avant d'être ré-acheminé. Parfois, au milieu de la confusion et de l'anxiété, nous pouvons tomber dans le piège d'exiger des réponses et des éclaircissements de la part de Notre-Seigneur. Nous pouvons même prier toutes les neuvaines du monde pour obtenir des réponses, mais si nous ne lui donnons pas d'abord tout notre cœur, nous pourrions nous retrouver encore plus frustrés et voir notre anxiété grandir. Dans les lectures d'aujourd'hui, Hannah donne tout son cœur à Notre-Seigneur, offrant des pétitions avec liberté, confiance et joie. Elle ne retient pas le désir de son cœur, mais le fait en sachant que cela exigera de Lui donner son propre cœur. Où vous invite-t-il à lui redonner tout votre cœur aujourd'hui ? [bctt tweet="J'avais besoin d'être ré-enraciné avant d'être ré-acheminé. // Mariana Pimiento" username="blessedisshe__"] écouter la dévotion d'aujourd'hui