"Do whatever He tells you." – Jn 2:5
Catherine Doherty & Dorothy Day Who are the ones who will exhort me, encourage me, comfort me; Who will reprimand me, push me, and love me into the best possible version of myself? Who are the ones who will see me as I really am, and love me, but love me too much to leave […]
“My life is too comfortable.” The thought came to me today. My life is too comfortable for it to be good for me. And yet, I don’t feel like changing things. I don’t want to be uncomfortable. It seems to me that this prayer makes the most sense for me because I cannot do anything […]
Speak, if necessary; if the words will edify you, if it is necessary for the one you wish to speak to. Otherwise, don’t speak. Remain in silence, undisturbed, and be at peace. “Keep the lid closed.” That’s how I have been feeling this Lent. Sometimes I feel an initial urge to say something or contact […]
Go, descend into the bowels of the abyss, Into the darkest of the dark, Into the stillness that suffocates, Into the silence that deafens; You will find there your salvation, in the bowels of the deep. When your lungs are purged of the toxins that had turned it from oxygen, When the ear of your […]
“Because, looking at Jesus, knowing Him, seeing Him in all His beauty, nothing seemed to them too painful, too hard, or too difficult in order to possess Him. They were irresistibly attracted to Him.” – Fr. Jean C. J. D’Elbée (Jesus, Mary, and the Saints)
“My heart is still far from You O Lord… not near enough, not near enough…” Have you ever allowed yourself to enter into the depths of Christ’s humiliation on the Cross? I haven’t. It is a sacred place I am not prepared to enter. Not yet. But this morning I entered into the scene of […]
This morning I felt blessed by this particularly dramatic and picturesque sunrise. Who is like Him indeed? (Now imagine hearing birdsong as you look upon this scene… that’s my morning!)
