Daily Step – Receive the grace offered to you today.
I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it. Like Mary Oliver, I’ll take grace too. Every. Single. Time. Perhaps it’s because unlike those...
October 1, 2021
Daily Step – Be yourself.
“If you’re John Muir you want trees to live among. If you’re Emily, a garden will do. Try to find the right place for yourself. If you can’t find...
September 30, 2021
Daily Step – Enjoying the year’s loveliest smile.
The year’s last, loveliest smile. Man I love the Fall. I love the changing of the leaves and the lowering temperatures. I love football season and...
September 29, 2021
Daily Step – So, we got a dog.
Actually, a puppy. I’m writing this as I sit outside with him in the dark watching him stretch his legs and sniff out the yard as...
September 28, 2021
Daily Step – What’s your favorite Fall sound?
It’s the second week of Fall, and I’m here for it. Of course, in Texas, it’ll take a bit for the temperature to catch up to...
September 27, 2021
Daily Step – I’ve got the solution!
Well actually, Dorothy Day does. And she says it’s gonna be quite the process… “This is a lifetime job. We are never going to be finished.”...
September 24, 2021
Daily Step – The miracle contained in the harvest moon.
There was a harvest moon the other night. I only know that because my oldest son came home so excited to talk about it. He’s learning...
September 23, 2021
Daily Step – It doesn’t have to be perfect.
It doesn’t have to be the blue iris. This poem by Mary Oliver is about prayer, but I feel it extends to other things as well…...
September 22, 2021
Daily Step – What does it mean to live simply?
What does it mean to live simply? Someone asked me this question recently, and they asked it quite earnestly: “Like really, what does it mean? Does...
September 21, 2021
Daily Step – Have you tried the Ignatian Examen?
Today I get to start up again with an Examen group for the first time in months, and I’m excited to begin. What’s the Examen? I...
September 20, 2021