Daily Step – You are loved as you are… now and always.
Over the Easter break I started a podcast called Loved As You Are – An Ignatian Podcast. I’m 6 episodes in, and I’m looking forward to...
April 23, 2023
Daily Step – Do I resist the healing God offers me?
I’ve been drawn to this line in John’s Gospel for the past few years. Two relatively simple words have become my constant reminder that God is...
March 27, 2023
Daily Step – Just curious, what kind of crier are you?
Are you a public, let the tears flow when they flow kinda crier? Or are you a private, tense all your muscles to keep the tears...
August 29, 2022
Daily Step – Are you battling conflicting emotions right now?
Are you battling conflicting emotions right now? like grief AND joy? heartache AND love?brokenness AND healing? It seems right now so many, myself included, are battling conflicting emotions…...
July 7, 2022
Daily Step – What if we let grief be… grief?
Yesterday, I spent some time setting up for a prayer service today focused on the Stations of the Cross and the situation in the Ukraine. Then,...
April 6, 2022
Daily Step – The risk of loving is always worth taking.
I’m not one for grieving. I don’t like to focus on that emotion much – despite writing quite a bit about the importance of it. I...
October 11, 2021
Daily Step – It’s okay to let joy and grief be housed together.
Joy and grief, housed together in one body. Have you ever felt both at the same time? Have you let the joy in when the grief...
October 8, 2021
Daily Step – Praying for a Glimpse of Heaven
Yesterday we buried our dog. My husband had Whooley for 18 years. I, not a pet person, got two dogs with the marriage almost 8 years...
August 12, 2020
Daily Step – I kinda miss them.
“I kinda miss them.” I don’t know what kind of person you are when it comes to cleaning. But me? I’m the kind that gets the...
July 20, 2020
Words and grief
Over 15 years ago, I was barely 22 years old and it was my first year teaching. Over the summer, I had gotten word that two...
May 20, 2019