"Do whatever He tells you." – Jn 2:5
The world is a noisy, noisy place. It hates stillness and silence. It is saturated with words and acts that pour forth from restless souls and frenzied minds, and in that cacophony of noise, we lose our bearings and lose touch with our soul. Because our souls, as Parker Palmer once beautifully wrote, is like […]
There is a vast landscape within our selves beyond where analytical thought or words can go. And if we are used to relying on thought and words to make sense of our lives, we will know when we are at the border of that place beyond words when we find ourselves at a loss for […]
“Well, she’s really blind now,” the vet said at Miko’s most recent eye check-up. As Dr H loosened her hold, Miko blindly scrambled towards my general direction with a nearly toothless grin. Dr H laughed – “Blind as a bat but still so happy. And feisty!” Miko had not made the check-up easy for the […]
Sometimes the more restless the heart is to reach out to others, the more it needs to remain in solitude in order to become still. Without stillness, our reaching out is compelled by neediness and a grasping insecurity instead of fullness and freedom of being. So dare to remain in solitude, my poor restless heart, […]
There is something irresistible and attractive about deep, genuine joy that radiates out from a soul that knows it is loved. Such a person could be in great suffering interiorly or physically and could even be struggling to make peace with the circumstances of his or her life, and yet there can be a steady […]
My confessor and spiritual director once shared with me that when we notice ourselves growing in irritability and losing our equanimity and peace at an increasing frequency, it is usually an indication that something is going “off” in our relationship with God. If and when we notice this happening, we need to intentionally take the […]
So for anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation: the old order is gone and a new being is there to see. – 2 Cor 5:17 Are you ready to be remade? To be transformed into the image of Christ? Are you willing to pay the price for your own freedom? Because […]
A decade ago when I left my doctoral studies to enter full-time ministry, it took a lot of letting go of ego for me. In fact, it would have been impossible for me to do without supernatural grace. My heart and mind were full of fear of what not completing my PhD studies ‘said about […]
I turned 40 today with joy. I am happy to grow older. I have always been happy to grow older. Oh there’s stuff I don’t like about getting older – like the aches and pains that seem to plague me more easily when I don’t exercise or get enough rest; or the fact that my […]
As a married Catholic lay woman, it is perhaps surprising (not least to me) that my personal vocation and the mission I have with my husband does not include children of our own. The moment people I meet know I am married, it is almost always followed up with the question, “Do you have children?” […]
