Removing Our Blinders
I drive pretty much the same route to work each morning. This can mean mentally shifting into autopilot and getting to work without much...
Moving Makes Me Dig Deep
Moving makes me dig deep. I realized this a few weeks ago as I pulled out of the hotel parking lot on a Sunday...
An Examen for Busy People
Our friends at Busted Halo have published an attractive six-step Examen, the prayer method that everyone can use. We have much material on the...
“Intimate Understanding and Relish of the Truth”
From the Spiritual Exercises:The one who explains to another the method and order of meditating or contemplating should narrate exactly the facts of the...
Discernment How-Tos
Spiritual director Teresa Blythe has a couple of interesting articles about discernment on Patheos. One is a step-by-step guide to discernment based on Ignatian...
Finding Beauty Amidst Suffering
Etty Hillesum, the young Jewish woman killed at Auschwitz who wrote beautiful diaries of life in Amsterdam, wrote movingly of finding beauty amidst suffering.
most...
Sunflowers
My sunflowers are blooming again. I was afraid I would miss them this year with our upcoming move to Texas. For weeks, I gazed...
Hope for a Better World
A reflection on the meditations on sin in the first week of the Spiritual Exercises.
To reflect on the classic stories of the sin of...
The Correct Use of More Daylight
Here in the Midwest, our days are longer during the summer. The sun is up before I head out to work, and it's still...
Good Things Happened
Back in February I wrote here about a fortune cookie my husband opened that promised, “Three months from this date, good things will happen.”...
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