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A Guide to Ignatian Discernment: A Spiritual Vaccine
I have a friend who had serious time management problems. She was always late. Seriously late. This included Sunday mass, even though she loved the liturgy and the spiritual community she was with each week. Then one day she shared with me that she had stopped...

A Guide to Ignatian Discernment: How do I land this plane?
Don’t let the white hair fool you, I’m not yet 4 years old…in Ignatian Spirituality terms, that is. The thought of writing my first Into the Deep piece has me pestered by internal voices calling me out as an imposter. What were you thinking saying yes? You don’t...

A Guide to Ignatian Discernment: Stop and Ask for Directions
There is a large shopping mall near my home. The hallway connecting the stores forms a circle. Unless I find a map kiosk, illustrating a diagram of the mall and its stores, with a star revealing, ‘you are here,’ I tend to take the long way around. Knowing where I am...

A Guide to Ignatian Discernment: Exercising Our Spiritual Muscles
Brady completed his first year of high school last week. In the final days of his freshmen year, I watched his tenacity grow as he studied for his exams. The diligent exercise of studying. Practicing math problems over and over again. Reviewing concepts. Reading...

Sustaining Hope: Letting God Hold the Remote with You
“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 our...

Sustaining Hope in Forgiveness
I need to apologize to you ... I felt like the prodigal daughter who stomped away from a difficult conversation only to be filled with remorse. In a moment of frustration, I lost my patience and let loose on a colleague. I was looking for someone to blame and wrongly...

Sustaining Hope in the Midst of Anxiety
“There was a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years. She had suffered greatly.” - Mark 5:25-26 My anxiety is hemorrhaging out of me. Over time I have learned to deal with my triggers in more effective ways. But some days, like today, it hemorrhages. It...

Sustaining Hope: Hope in the Storm
We had no beds for our children after Hurricane Katrina. I remember sitting on the curb outside of an old K&B Drugstore that had long closed down in the small town outside of New Orleans where I had grown up. My oldest daughter struggled as a toddler to sit beside...

Sustaining Hope in the Unknown
Truth be told, I am kicking myself for agreeing to write on this particular topic for this series on Sustaining Hope. A couple months ago when I put my name down for this and typed the words “finding hope in the unknown” as my choice of topics, I thought I would have...

Sustaining Hope: Hope, a Feathered Thing
For whatever was written previously was written for our instruction, that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. Romans 15:4 (NAB) It feels like I’ve been waiting a long time for more light and warmer days to chase away damp, late...