Daily Step – Which inner voice do you listen to?
Earlier this week, I was reflecting with my weekly Examen group and the topic of voices came up. Not external voices, but really our own inner...
November 3, 2021
Daily Step – What did you love doing as a child?
My twins started an after school drama camp last week. I had asked them last Monday: “If you could do anything as an extracurricular, what would...
November 2, 2021
Daily Step – We can’t be a saint if we aren’t true to ourselves.
It’s All Saints Day in the Catholic Church. This day marks the beginning of a month dedicated to remembering loved ones and role models and inspiring...
November 1, 2021
Daily Step – Be stubborn in your hope.
Yesterday, I finished the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I guess one never really “finishes” them. The Exercises are a lifelong journey. At any one point...
October 29, 2021
Daily Step -Rest in this glimmer of hope today.
“Goddisguisedas a myriad things…” Maybe even as a butterfly? Once a few years ago when the boys were really small, we took them to an exhibit...
October 28, 2021
Daily Step – There is magic waiting.
I never thought of myself as someone who craved silence. But I think it’s true. I do actually need those moments when I walk in the...
October 27, 2021
Daily Step – An odd sort of mercy, but there ya go.
“Dear Morningyou comewith so many angels of mercyso wondrously disguised…” This has been a really rough morning already. First, Riley messed his bed in his crate…...
October 26, 2021
Daily Step – Let’s start today with gratitude.
It’s Monday morning and I am staring down at a to-do list a mile long. And it’s making me a bit anxious. I’m worried about so...
October 25, 2021
Daily Step – We were not all meant to be roses.
Today I wrap up the third and final day of the first senior retreat of the year. As I think back to the conversations had and...
October 21, 2021
Daily Step – Sometimes the grace God gives is time.
St. Ignatius invites us to ask God for what we want or think we need each time we pray. He invites us to be up front...
October 20, 2021