Daily Step – Difficult Conversations
I sometimes want to run away from difficult conversations. Especially those conversations where my children are looking at me with their inquisitive brown eyes and waiting...
February 27, 2020
Daily Step – Ash Wednesday
We are for a day, marked. We are for a day, visibly human. I recently wrote an article for @bustedhalo about Ash Wednesday. As we begin...
February 26, 2020
Daily Step – Preparing for Lent
I can be super self-critical. I mean I’ve found half a dozen things I’d like to alter in this photo alone. Am I alone in this?...
February 25, 2020
Daily Step – Case of the Mondays
Mondays tend to give me anxiety. It seems like it is always the day of the week that we can’t find anything and everyone is just...
February 24, 2020
Daily Step – Watch it Grow
I can be so impatient with change. Change in myself, and, to be honest, often change in others too. I forget that things take a really...
February 21, 2020
Daily Step – Simple Acts of Love
I forgot the rocks. Twice. If you have been following me for a bit, you know that my sons request rocks when I travel. It is such...
February 20, 2020
Daily Step – Hold My Hand
I used to ask God to hold my hand when I was scared. One time, on a rollercoaster I did not particularly want to be on,...
February 19, 2020
Daily Step – Unfinished
God is not finished with us yet. And If we are moving ever closer to the person God created us to be, the details will work...
February 18, 2020
Daily Step – A Step in Faith
Take the first step in faith. This looks like just a simple brown recliner in a room at a retreat house with a simple lamp next...
February 17, 2020
Daily Step – Peace and Love
It is about peace AND love. I have been at a Franciscan Renewal Center the last week for my conference. It is a beautiful, peaceful place…...
February 14, 2020