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Lenten Read-Along: A Prayer for New Life

Help me live into new life. Help me to unclench my tight fists. Breathe new life into my lungs, hands, feet, voice. These are...

The Two Standards and Letting Go

This post is based on Week Five of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. It was the last day of a recovery retreat when my partner, Sister...

Following the Spirit’s Lead in Communal Discernment

We all suddenly paused in the middle of our meeting. I looked around and could sense that others felt what I was noticing: the...

Lenten Read-Along: Examen of God’s Compassion and Mercy for Me

I begin by giving thanks for the good gifts God has given me so far. I ask God for the gifts of insight...

Getting to Know Jesus at the Heart Level

This post is based on Week Four of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. When my husband and I first married, we moved over 500 miles away...

Living with Unexpected Change

“Living with unexpected change” describes the life of just about everybody I know. A marriage hits hard times thanks to extended illness or unemployment....

Lenten Read-Along: Prayer in a Time of Anger

God of welcome, God of embrace, As ocean waves rise and fall, as stormy clouds gather and clear, as moving winds blow and subside, So, too, does my...

Noticing My Stumbling Blocks

This post is based on Week Three of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. For five years I volunteered at the county jail, where I took a...

The Strength of My Son Shown Through His Panda Project

The other day my inbox dinged with the announcement of a new video from my son’s second-grade account. One of the best things about...

Lenten Read-Along: The Lost Sheep Imaginative Reflection

Pray with an Ignatian contemplation on the Parable of the Lost Sheep from Luke 15:4–7. This exercise is inspired by Step Two in The...

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