Sunday Stride – What do you need to let go of?
“Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands?” This is one of my favorite prayers by Henri Nouwen, and I’m reflecting with...
July 11, 2021
Daily Step – What questions are you asking right now?
What questions are you asking right now?What answers do you seek? This morning, I’m taking my three sons to get their hearing checked. My oldest has...
July 9, 2021
Daily Step – How are you showing up in the world?
“The point is you’re you, and that’s for keeps.” How many times have you tried to be something you are not? The most outgoing person in...
July 8, 2021
Daily Step – What lens are you viewing the world with today?
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing,...
July 7, 2021
Daily Step – And anyway, what’s wrong with the maybe?
“And anyway, what’s wrong with Maybe?” Hmm… well… My personality doesn’t jive with maybe. Even though I don’t teach math anymore, my brain still really likes...
July 6, 2021
Daily Step – What are your cannonball moments?
“Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood.” These words start one of Mary Oliver’s beautiful and thought-provoking poems while the words in this...
July 5, 2021
Daily Step – What makes your heart say “I think I love this”?
We have what we seek. When I first learned about Ignatian Discernment, I was struck by how it focuses on your deepest desires. It honors what...
July 2, 2021
Daily Step – You are beloved.
You are beloved. I first read this line in a book by Henri Nouwen over a decade ago. I heard it again when I watched a...
July 1, 2021
Daily Step – What are you grateful for today?
Today I’m grateful for push-ups. Ok in case you’ve been following along for a bit… yes I do still loathe push-ups. They are still my least favorite...
June 30, 2021
Daily Step – What is narrowing your focus today?
For everything has the potential of calling forth in us a deeper response to our life in God… Or the opposite. And we have a hand...
June 29, 2021