Daily Step – Do you focus on the good parts first?
“Wow, that’s so nice!” “How’d it go? Thanks for asking. So great. Let me tell you the good parts first…” “Thank you. Wow that’s really kind...
September 1, 2021
Daily Step – Do you have a favorite prayer?
I first discovered this prayer by Thomas Merton sometime in college. It quickly became my favorite prayer. Probably because it starts with a feeling I have...
August 31, 2021
Daily Step – Do you ever worry your gift will run out?
Someone once cautioned me about writing and sharing my work as often as I do. He said “We only have a limited amount of good thoughts...
August 27, 2021
Daily Step – Parenting in 2021 is hard.
Last night, I randomly posted a poll in my Instagram stories. I wrote: “Parenting in 2021 is hard. I am doing the best I can, but...
August 26, 2021
Daily Step – What does God want you to be?
What does God want me to be? Wow, that’s a question, isn’t it? I imagine I’ll spend my whole life asking it. Though maybe the answer...
August 25, 2021
Daily Step – It’s okay to be emotional.
“It’s okay to be emotional.” These were words spoken to me last week. I was having a moment when I was trying really hard to keep...
August 23, 2021
Daily Step – What if He said no?
This week I entered the third week of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. It’s the part of the Exercises where the retreatant is supposed to...
August 20, 2021
Daily Step – Are you hard on yourself sometimes?
I came across these words yesterday in a poem by Mary Oliver and they stuck with me. “I am so distant from the hope of myself,in...
August 19, 2021
Daily Step – See the Divine shining through.
It was pouring rain when I left work yesterday. I was soaked because I didn’t check the weather before going into work. Sans umbrella, I ran...
August 18, 2021
Daily Step – Here comes the sun.
Here comes the sun. I used this song by the Beatles in a retreat talk many years ago. During the talk, I spoke about the moment...
August 17, 2021