by Monique Jacobs | Apr 10, 2022 | Discernment, Ignatian Spirituality, Prayer
Sister Columbkill, our substitute teacher, looked around the room of fourth graders. There I sat, spellbound, listening to her story. “Listen carefully to what is really happening here,” she said as she shared about her experience as a young sister during World War II...
by Vinita Wright | Apr 3, 2022 | Discernment, Hope, Ignatian Spirituality, Love & Mercy
This topic deserves its own book, but I will summarize what I see as reasons a person might feel that she or he does not belong to God. A Faulty Concept or Image of God. When I feel as if I don’t belong to God, I’ve learned to ask the question: Whose God? My concept...
by Jen Coito | Mar 27, 2022 | Discernment, Ignatian Spirituality, Prayer
It was “No.” As clear as day. I had prayed for an answer, and I heard the “No”. I wanted it to be yes… so, so, so badly. I was devastated. I remember the place, the people, the moment in that chapel. Even more so, I can recall the feeling that God had led me to a...
by Gretchen Crowder | Mar 20, 2022 | Discernment, Ignatian Spirituality
“It’s because he has not yet found his people, Gretchen.” This was one line that stuck with me all last year when I was agonizing over switching my oldest son to a school specifically for learning differences. They were words spoken by an educator helping me with the...
by Stephanie Clouatre Davis | Mar 13, 2022 | Faith in Action, Ignatian Spirituality
We are us. Belonging to a community means there is an “us” and not just an “I.” Even before I was born, I belonged to an “us.” My twin brother and I were born into a beautiful family of six. My dad was born into a family of 12 and my mom into a family of seven. I had...