Daily Step – Do you ever feel like you are in need of repair?
Do you ever feel like you are in need of repair? That there is some part of you that is broken? How often do your prayers...
February 9, 2022
Daily Step – Do you believe that you are enough?
Do you believe you are enough? Exactly as you are? If so, that’s awesome. Keep believing in it and modeling what it looks like for others....
November 4, 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
Sunday Stride – I long to know the stories between the stories of Mary.
Today is one of many Feasts where we honor Mary. As I engaged in the Spiritual Exercises this past summer, I was invited to contemplate some...
August 15, 2021
Daily Step – Who are the people who show you a new way of being?
Who are the people in your life that show you a new way of being? My boys are definitely those people for me. One of my...
July 21, 2021
Daily Step – It doesn’t have to be perfect to be good.
It doesn’t have to be the blue iris. This is the first line in one of my favorite poems by Mary Oliver. The poem is about...
May 14, 2021
Daily Step – Poor couch cover…
Today is dress as your favorite saint day at school. My boys asked me to just pick for them. So, on Tuesday I excitedly told the...
October 30, 2020
Daily Step – Remember it’s not always about the final product.
I’ve had these geometric shapes since my first year of teaching 18 years ago. I think a professor gave them to me (memory fades after so...
August 24, 2020
Sunday Stride – Even “the rock” had cracks.
God is calling us to big things. Huge. And as we discern what those are, let us remember what God is not calling us to –...
August 22, 2020
Daily Step – “Mom, we made a pool!”
I told the boys they had to wait until the weekend for us to inflate a pool for the backyard. So, in their wisdom, they found...
May 13, 2020