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Fighting Nerves by Dancing with Jesus

I struggled to pray as my mind bounced from one distraction to another. The biggest distraction was preparations for a trip to El Salvador...

Prayer and the Second Week

This post is based on Week Four of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ, makes these key points in talking about prayer and...

Joy in January

“Joy in January” might seem a contradiction in terms. For many of us, January is a cold, wet, sloppy month. For Christians, there’s the...

Looking Back to Look Forward in Advent

When my children were younger, we would go on long road trips during the winter holiday from school to visit our families. We’d eagerly...

Spiritual Family Heirlooms

My mother-in-law passed away several months ago, and now my husband and his siblings are going through the arduous task of sorting through her...

A Sense of Serenity

This past year, my family decided to watch the entire Seinfeld series. My children are now old enough to get the jokes, and enough...

Stay Hydrated

This morning as I chatted with a parking garage guard at my workplace, he amiably said, “Stay hydrated. It’s hot out there.” As I...

Five Ways to Follow St. Ignatius’s Example to See All Things New in Christ

I’m writing from the desert this month. I’ve spent a lot of time gazing at the magnificent peaks that surround my valley abode, and...

Time for Prayer

How hard can it be to take 10, 15, 20 minutes a day for dedicated prayer or reflection and contemplation? And yet the commitment...

What I Learned About God Through My Pet Bird

My bird, Charlie, died last month. Charlie was a beautiful little parrot, jam-packed with personality. Most days, my shoulder was her perch, from which she...

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