Deep healing, Christ’s presence, and the power to be made new. Recently, I was interviewed by my friend and colleague, Melissa Krupp of The Abundant Catholic in a podcast episode titled, Restoring Your Broken Heart (listen at the link below). Melissa wrote…
Imagine yourself standing at a high mountain overlook. You’ve broken through the treeline and are walking along a trail, cut perfectly through a green mountain meadow. You breathe in the fragrance of the crisp air as you wind your way…
During Advent we are invited to prepare our hearts anew for Jesus, right? What does that mean and how do we do it? How do I make my heart a more inviting abode for our Lord? We reflected on this…
Who will it be today? When we go to prayer, whom do we seek? What is it we need? How about some empathy to meet us right where we are? My spiritual mother recently invited me to try praying a…
I realize we are not in the season of Lent, which is when I had intended to write this article on meeting Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Trusting in the Lord’s timing, perhaps early September is the perfect time…
As God creates each human person, He’s singing to us.. a timeless song of true love is engraved, inscribed deep into our hearts by God Himself.
Earlier this summer, my 10-year-old son Zachary and I went to visit my “forever friend,” Colleen (we’ve known each other since we were toddlers), at her home in Shark River Hills, NJ, which is the neighborhood where she and I…
“Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved?” – The Song of Songs 8:5 We made it! We have emerged from the desert of Lent and are well into the Easter season. Was your Lenten season…
“Always be the smallest, think of the size of the host.” Jesus to Gabrielle Bossis, April 11, 1946, He and I, page 172 Lord, You come to me with such docility, giving me the entirety of Who You are. You…
Being alive in this imperfect and dysfunctional world, we’ve each experienced heartache and wounding. Not only have we experienced things that were harmful, but we’ve also missed out on experiencing things that we were made for. In our earliest years,…
I find the annual transition from summer to autumn a bittersweet time. Even as my favorite season of summer comes to an end, I anticipate the comfort of cozy sweaters, warm socks, and hot beverages. I take in the beauty…
Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a multitude was coming to him, Jesus said to Philip, “How are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” This he said to test him, for he himself knew…
