Sunday Stride – How often does fear direct your actions?
How often does fear instead of faith direct our response to things? In today’s Gospel, the Lord and his apostles are out to sea when a...
June 20, 2021
Sunday Stride – Alleluia!
Alleluia! He has risen! Yesterday, I went to get my second moderna shot. Since I got my first one a month ago, I had been waiting...
April 4, 2021
Sunday Stride – Straddling the line between joy and sorrow…
Palm Sunday snuck up on me this year. Did it sneak up on you? I’m surprised since I’ve been walking through the daily readings posting faculty/staff...
March 28, 2021
Sunday Stride – Hey Google: Is the desert cold?
Hey Google: Is the desert cold? That was the question I typed in this morning as I read through today’s Gospel about Jesus in the desert...
February 21, 2021
Sunday Stride – Making time for prayer.
“Gretchen, the boys want the night night prayer…” my husband called out to me as I lay on the couch last night. “Huh?” I called back...
February 7, 2021
Sunday Stride – Why does God let bad things happen?
Recently I was asked to respond to the prompt “Why does God let bad things happen?” for a writing assignment. How does one answer this question...
January 31, 2021
Sunday Stride – We aren’t called to suffer alone.
I almost didn’t write a reflection for this Sunday. The readings are about the necessity of suffering, not an easy topic. I read the readings readings...
August 29, 2020
Sunday Stride – The Rest We Seek
“Come to me all who labor and are burdened and I will give you rest.” Three nights in a row now, I woke with a start...
July 4, 2020
Sunday Stride – What Remains
The room was dark except for a lone candle lit at the front. Next to the candle was a basket and in the basket was a...
April 4, 2020
Sunday Stride – Will You Let it Change You?
Here’s what a normal Saturday morning used to look like for me. I’d get up at 5:00AM to make myself breakfast and work on publishing my...
March 22, 2020