Are you too busy serving to feed your soul?
My confessor and spiritual director once shared with me that when we notice ourselves growing in irritability and losing our equanimity and […]
Letting go of ego (in life and in ministry)
A decade ago when I left my doctoral studies to enter full-time ministry, it took a lot of letting go of ego […]
40
I turned 40 today with joy. I am happy to grow older. I have always been happy to grow older. Oh there’s […]
Bless the little ones
Is there anything more delightful and healing than the innocence of pure love? It has been two days and I am still […]
Off the pedestal and into the soil
Humility is a rare virtue among the accomplished. It is also rare among the spiritually converted. There seems to be built deep into […]
So this is me…
As I reflected on what 2015 has meant to me, I realised that this is the year that I reaped the fruits […]
Paschal Mystery
There comes a time in life when we will give thanks not only for the things that hold us together, but for the […]
The God of Stumbles and Falls
You know the popular question that people have, “If God is a loving God, why does He allow suffering?” Well, I thought I had gone past asking that question until recently when I discovered that I am still struggling with it in a different form. The question I ask is, “If God loves His children so much, why does He let them screw up their lives?” At 35 years old, I have lived enough years to see people of my generation bear the painful […]
Ann Cassandra
For years I had regretted the choice of my Confirmation name. At 14, I had felt that my baptism name ‘Ann’ was too plain. I wanted my Confirmation name to make my name more… romantic. And that’s why I chose Cassandra. I thought ‘Ann Cassandra’ had a nice ring to it. As I grew older, I became embarrassed about the frivolous, romantic name. And so it was that my Confirmation name had been a closely guarded secret for years. But recently, I […]
Ms. Goody-2-Shoes
‘Goody-2-shoes’ is a phrase I have heard often in my life. Whether uttered in derision or affection, this name has always made me cringe inwardly. To my ears, this term is often synonymous with stick-in-the-mud, inflexible, uncool, and just plain boring. It’s true that I hardly drink, I have never smoked, I have never gone clubbing, I married my first boyfriend, and I am painfully honest and responsible (most of the time). On the other hand, in spite of my ‘goody’ self, […]
