A Risen Life
In this Sunday’s gospel Jesus is posed a question about resurrection and the afterlife.* As he so often does with his answers, Jesus steers us to a much bigger understanding of God and our lives than we can ever comprehend. God is a Living God transcending all space and time, and we are forever marvelously […]
Start Close In – Sept. 5, 2022
“The temptation is to take the second or third step, not the first, to ignore the invitation into the center of our own body, into our grief, to attempt to finesse the grief and the absolutely necessary understanding at the core of the pattern, to forego the radical and almost miraculous simplification into which we […]
Now I Am a People – May 12, 2022
“When we live into the vision of safety and love for all, then all of us will experience inward healing. All of us will be able to say together, “Once I was nobody, but now I am someone. Once I was a part of no people, but now I am one of God’s people.”” -N. Gordon Cosby, Seized […]
Soul Friends – Feb. 14, 2022
“Soul friends play an essential role in helping us to welcome in the inner stranger. Often meeting these parts of ourselves that have been abandoned again and again brings on tears of recognition and homecoming.” –Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening (Sorin Books, Notre Dame, 2018), p. 55-56