Daily Step – Have you ever experienced spiritual desolation?
Have you ever experienced spiritual desolation? No it’s not the same as depression, though some of the physical feelings can be similar. Instead, it’s a feeling...
July 11, 2022
Daily Step – What do you believe the journey should be like?
Do you believe the journey from here to heaven is meant to be difficult? Or life-giving? Last summer, I started the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius....
July 8, 2022
Daily Step – What’s your ”good stuff” today?
Last night I was up way too late scrolling for updates in the various news stories of the day. Once I did fall asleep, all I...
July 5, 2022
Daily Step – No concrete thoughts here, just an honest prayer.
I don’t have any concrete thoughts on anything going on at the moment, external or internal to my little piece of this great big world. And...
June 28, 2022
Daily Step – I love these three discernment questions.
“What brings you joy? What are you really good at? What do the people around you really need?” A friend of mine, Fr. Quang Tran, SJ...
June 13, 2022
Daily Step – Do you focus more on your mistakes or your successes?
Today I sent an email too quickly, and it had a mistake in it. And to me… it was temporarily the end of the world. “How could...
June 7, 2022
Daily Step – Does God really want for us what we want for ourselves?
Do you believe that what you want for yourself matches what God wants for you? I didn’t use to. I used to think that service to...
June 6, 2022
Daily Step – How does God speak to you?
“God speaks to us as God makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.” I come back to these words often. I first...
May 24, 2022
Daily Step – If you can’t fix the door, try the frame instead.
Are there things you want to fix that you cannot? (Or can’t fix easily?) (Or can’t fix right now?) I feel ya. Being stuck in that...
May 19, 2022
Daily Step – How are you entering today?
How are you entering today? Are you weighted down by the baggage of the weekend? last week? last year? Are you carrying grief? loss? sorrow? hurt?...
May 16, 2022