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
Daily Step – Happy Feast Day, Ignatius!
“There are so many stories more beautiful than answers.” My oldest son got diagnosed with moderate hearing loss three months shy of his fifth birthday. It...
July 30, 2021
Daily Step – Things take the time they take.
Things take the time they take. Wow this is a hard sentence for me. After all, I’m an impatient person. I want to know who it...
July 28, 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 – Ignatius has some thoughts for you.
Yesterday was a day. While I was on a work call, my twins came in constantly requesting tape and paper from me. Though I told them...
July 31, 2020
Daily Step – Love in Deed
Yesterday I had to take a twin to the doctor. When we arrived back home, the other boys ran up to him and asked wide-eyed: “What...
July 1, 2020
On the side of love…
I walked into my son’s room on All Saints Day morning, and as usual, he was still lying in his bed relaxing instead of getting dressed....
November 2, 2019
Soldier and Saint
This past week I was at my first of four weeks of an Ignatian Seminars program for Ignatian educators. Near the end of the week, we...
October 12, 2019
If today you hear his voice…
The readings for this Sunday made me instantly think of the story of St. Ignatius. Maybe it’s because I have been writing a lot and talking...
August 3, 2019
Five Lessons I’ve learned from St. Ignatius
This was originally posted in full at jesuits.org on the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Earlier this summer, I stood on the platform of a...
August 1, 2019