Daily Step – Do you try too hard to love perfectly?
We have a set of these Christmas lights up year round in our kitchen. Originally, we kept them up because the boys birthdays are soon after...
June 28, 2021
Daily Step – Who is worthy of love?
Who is worthy of love? I’ve learned a lot about the answer to this question over the past eight years of being a parent. Seeing how...
June 24, 2021
Daily Step – What’s your most important thing?
“What is the most important thing?” This question came out of one of my twins mouths yesterday as we were piling out of the car. Not...
June 16, 2021
Daily Step – The chief thing is to love.
For the last few days, I’ve been working on this sketch. I thought I’d put it up today with a favorite quote from one of my...
June 11, 2021
Daily Step – How does God see you?
How does God see you? One of the best lessons I learned in the last almost 15 years of studying Ignatian Spirituality and Catholic theology is...
June 9, 2021
Sunday Stride – Let him have his moment.
Let him have his moment. Yesterday, my twins insisted on a roly-poly hunt. They first discovered a roly-poly on the way into school on Friday. “Mom,...
April 11, 2021
Daily Step – What’s your best example of something permanent?
“Mom, do you know what “permanent” means?” This was the conversation this morning on the way to school. Two excited boys got $$ under their pillows...
March 30, 2021
Sunday Stride – For God so loved the world…
“For God so loved the world…” Yesterday, as I was reading my oldest son a Ronald Dahl book, he stopped me to say he would easily...
March 14, 2021
Sunday Stride – What are the norms that guide us today?
Today’s readings are all about the rules – and a re-establishment of them by Jesus when the practice of them goes awry. In both the first...
March 7, 2021
Daily Step – May God surprise you.
Sometimes God can surprise you with an unexpected but beautiful response to even your most fervent prayers. As I lay in bed this morning, I realized...
February 1, 2021