“Ms. Knobbe, you look the same, but your heart is different.” These were the words from one of my students when I returned from my first encounter with the Spiritual Exercises. A profound transformation had taken place in me during those 30 days of silence. As I...
“When it is time to leave, you will know, and it will be OK.” The Holy Spirit has a way of placing words on my heart during prayer. I had been struggling with my position in campus ministry for longer than I care to admit. During my annual summer retreat, the...
“When it is time to leave, you will know, and it will be OK.” The Holy Spirit has a way of placing words on my heart during prayer. I had been struggling with my position in campus ministry for longer than I care to admit. During my annual summer...
“God has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful.” – Saint Teresa of Calcutta One of the first people I called when I learned I was losing my job was my friend Sally. “You have been so faithful!” she repeated over and over again. “You have...
I could feel the burn deep in my throat and tears welling up in my eyes. If it weren’t for the taxi driver in the front seat, I surely would have screamed or gotten sick to my stomach. I finally arrived home to an empty apartment with both roommates out on dates of...
I never expected love to look like this. The week before Christmas my adoptive family surprised me with an early gift. I teased them, “Is this some tradition of which I was unaware? A gift that must be opened before Christmas?!” They explained with great delight...
For many years, I spent a portion of December on mission trips to Nicaragua. Even now, Advent conjures up images of a rural mountain village, where very few decorations are needed to announce God’s arrival. We once visited a local family, who invited us to share a...
“Are You With Me, Church?” I was first introduced to Sister Thea Bowman by my classmate Beverly Ann Stewart, a long-time minister and health-care professional in the African American community in Chicago. Bev talked about Sister Thea Bowman the way you talk...
This month’s blog series is “Uniquely Created." Last month we spoke about Gathering the graces. God graces us with all we need to be the person God uniquely created us to be. If we internalize and believe and trust that we are in fact uniquely created, uniquely...
This month's blog series focuses on the grace we pray for in the second week of the Spiritual Exercises: to know, to love, and to follow Jesus. Today Beth Knobbe shares with us how she has seen God's work at play in her life during this time of COVID-19. I sat...
