Daily Step – 2025 Word of the Year
Since 2019, I have chosen (or often it has chosen me) a word/phrase to guide my year. Usually these words come to me through prayer, and...
January 6, 2025
Daily Step – Reflection on a Semester of Advanced Gratitude
Back in July, I wrote a post for Ignatian Spirituality on a practice I called “Advanced Gratitude”. Once it published in early August, I re-read it...
December 4, 2024
Daily Step – While the Game Unfolds
Today I am over at IgnatianSpirituality.com writing about a lifetime of watching Notre Dame football and the real stress of watching a game unfold – especially...
November 8, 2024
Daily Step – When the Miracle Doesn’t Happen
Today, I’m over at Ignatian Ministries Into the Deep blog writing for their series “Finding Hope When It’s Hard.” The question I sought to answer was:...
November 4, 2024
Daily Step – My will, not Yours.
Today I’m over at IgnatianMinistries.org writing for their series of moving from Desolation to Consolation. Here’s an excerpt: Turns out, though, that moment of surrender only...
September 2, 2024
Daily Step – Let us begin!
During day 5 of JESEDU-jogja2024, we paused to examine our week and consider how Christ was not only moving in us as a global Jesuit educational...
June 30, 2024
Daily Step – Would another time and place be better, simpler, or even… more holy?
Yesterday, on day 4 of JESEDU-Jogja2024, our keynote speaker Dr. Paul Sharkey mentioned that Karl Rahner once said that even the Church does not get to...
June 27, 2024
Daily Step – What if I worked on loving myself more?
Today I’m over at IgnatianSpirituality.com talking about what I am focusing on this Advent. “I know that often we spend time during a season like Advent...
December 6, 2023
Daily Step – I must release control.
“I must release control.” Today, I’m over at Ignatian Spirituality sharing a poem I wrote recently. The poem was written for me but it became larger...
November 10, 2023
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