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My Bravest Prayer

In August of 2010, I put my then 21-year-old son into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center for the first time. Our family immediately...

Cannonball Moment: A Friend’s Death

Five hundred years ago, St. Ignatius was hit by a cannonball in battle. He sustained a horrendous fracture to his right leg and damage...

Shattered Tomato and Dripping Rain

We had been having torrential downpours all day. I usually love the sound of the rain, but there is one sound that I don’t...

Callings

I recently began watching a TV show about passengers on an airplane who, unknowingly, disappear for five years while in flight. While they believe...

Regeneration Through Cultivating Joy

One of my earliest childhood memories is being about two or three years old, walking along a Florida beach with my parents. My father...

Strangers and the Funny Papers

I am thirsty. Not for water or coffee or tea but for conversation. And I’m not talking about the weather or the plague or politics. I’m...

Three Ways to Respond When Life Goes a Different Direction

After Ignatius of Loyola gave his life to God’s service, he imagined that he should go to Jerusalem to pray and do penance, make...

The Trinity and the Trumpet

I was about to walk downstairs when I heard a beautiful sound coming from my son’s room. I paused at the top of the...

Kintsugi and the Divine Potter

Recently, I started the Spiritual Exercises again, and one of the first readings I reflected on was from Jeremiah. In this passage (18:1–9), God...

Minding Our Thought Patterns

In St. Ignatius’s second set of rules for discernment—the rules pertaining to more subtle discernment, what we might call advanced discernment—he addresses, in rules...

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