Daily Step – Blessed are the Merciful
Today I am over at IgnatianMinistries.org’s Into the Deep Blog writing about finding hope through the Beatitude “Blessed are the merciful.” This one was a tough...
April 7, 2025
Daily Step – Auditing My Phone Use for Lent
How do I seek balance and still access the benefits of my phone? How do I protect my mental health while still being an active participant in...
March 10, 2025
Daily Step – Take Heart!
Friends, I am honored to be one of the contributors to the Ignatian Solidarity Network’s Lenten Series. Inspired by scripture’s call to “take heart,” thoughtful authors...
March 3, 2025
Daily Step – The Grace of Perseverance
Today I am over at Ignatian Ministries’ Into the Deep Blog writing about the challenges of persisting and the grace God always seems to offer us...
February 17, 2025
Daily Step – Can I do better?
There are three questions that I learned to ask myself daily from Ignatian Spirituality and the Exercises: This prayer by Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. reminds me...
February 5, 2025
Daily Step – Hope before the Game
Today I am over at IgnatianSpirituality.com reflecting on Notre Dame Football‘s incredible playoff run alongside the start of the Church’s Jubilee Year of Hope. Aptly timed...
February 3, 2025
Daily Step – There is No Harmony in Isolation
As I listened to Sunday’s second reading being proclaimed in mass yesterday morning, the words struck me anew… and I couldn’t stop thinking about them. The...
January 27, 2025
Daily Step – 2025 Word of the Year
Since 2019, I have chosen (or often it has chosen me) a word/phrase to guide my year. Usually these words come to me through prayer, and...
January 6, 2025
Daily Step – Reflection on a Semester of Advanced Gratitude
Back in July, I wrote a post for Ignatian Spirituality on a practice I called “Advanced Gratitude”. Once it published in early August, I re-read it...
December 4, 2024
Daily Step – While the Game Unfolds
Today I am over at IgnatianSpirituality.com writing about a lifetime of watching Notre Dame football and the real stress of watching a game unfold – especially...
November 8, 2024