Daily Step – Do you focus on the good parts first?
“Wow, that’s so nice!” “How’d it go? Thanks for asking. So great. Let me tell you the good parts first…” “Thank you. Wow that’s really kind...
September 1, 2021
Daily Step – Are you hard on yourself sometimes?
I came across these words yesterday in a poem by Mary Oliver and they stuck with me. “I am so distant from the hope of myself,in...
August 19, 2021
Daily Step – Start today with hi and thank you.
“Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning.” I love this poem by Mary Oliver mostly because it pushes me to change my...
August 13, 2021
Daily Step – Look for God in the light.
I love mornings. It took years for me to understand that I was at my best if I went to bed early and woke up early....
August 11, 2021
Daily Step – How do you want to move in the world?
Pay attention. Tell about it. You know one thing I never paid adequate attention to? Animals. I’m not exactly an animal person. But I married an...
August 4, 2021
Daily Step – Are you ready to start again?
Today, I go back to school to prepare for my 20th year of teaching, my 15th at a Jesuit school. It’s August y’all! August is my...
August 2, 2021
Daily Step – What do you want to be best at?
“You’re it! You’re really it!” How many times have we desired to be tagged by God to be something special? I know over the years, I’ve...
July 27, 2021
Daily Step – What questions are you asking right now?
What questions are you asking right now?What answers do you seek? This morning, I’m taking my three sons to get their hearing checked. My oldest has...
July 9, 2021
Daily Step – How are you showing up in the world?
“The point is you’re you, and that’s for keeps.” How many times have you tried to be something you are not? The most outgoing person in...
July 8, 2021
Daily Step – May your gravity be lightened by grace.
“May your gravity be lightened by grace.” There are so many people going through some incredibly hard things right now. And the truth is that most...
May 11, 2021