“I promise, I’m not changing the channel … I just want to hold the remote.” My then 5-year-old daughter’s eyes were big and her voice was a high-pitched whine as she grabbed for the remote.As I was thinking about how to sustain hope when circumstances are beyond...
When I look back at all that has changed due to the global pandemic, one thing that remained surprising and challenging for me was the drastic change in decision making. Instantly, every decision became much heavier, often with an added fear of a life or death...
Today was one of those days where the whole house seemed to wake up on the wrong side of the bed. I had been awakened at 3am in a bit of a panic as I remembered that I had to finish writing this post, and though I managed to get myself back to sleep, I woke up with...
This month’s blog series is “Discovering Our Call." 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...
Our next 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 Kathy Powell shares with us how we can be brave like Jesus. With the laptop in the middle of the living room floor, my...
In our previous "Called and Listening" series, we talked about how to hear God's voice and some tools to help you do that. But what about those moments when God's voice becomes so obvious. We're talking about those small, but life-changing moments when your eyes...
Welcome to the new series: Spiritual Direction: Why I Make Time For It. I've invited four people who are not spiritual directors, to share what spiritual direction has meant to them in their own lives, why they have made seeing a spiritual director a priority, and...
In this series, Women and Men for Others, I’ve invited people I’ve met over the years to share what God has made known to them about how to use their gifts and life experiences for the good of others, truly putting their prayer into action and living the Ignatian...
This is the second week of our new blog series called, "The Wisdom Series: Sharing the Deep Truths of an Elder." I got this idea from a recent book that my publisher, Loyola Press, released called Sharing the Wisdom of Time, a beautiful book celebrating the wisdom...
