"Do whatever He tells you." – Jn 2:5
Me and Daddy As far back as I can remember, I was never a “Daddy’s Girl”. My father’s not the sort of Dad that likes to indulge or pamper his “little princess”. In fact, what I remembered most about my father when I was a child was that he worked a lot. He had a […]
From the time I was very young, I have been told that it is very important to keep Christ in the center of my relationships. But the thing was, nobody ever really taught me how to do that. I have heard many times over statements like, “Make sure God is in the center of your relationship,” or […]
We celebrated Dad & Mum’s 40th Wedding Anniversary yesterday. It was simple – Sunday mass and family dinner. I was grateful how low-key and casual we all were about the planning. In my intense and dramatic family, “low-key” and “casual” can often feel like rare supernatural graces. I really love this family portrait we took yesterday. […]
There is nothing quite so eloquent as presence. #prayer #nowordsnecessary
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” – St. Augustine of Hippo I am often restless. It used to be that I was restless without being aware that I was restless. I was too busy trying to distract myself with activity, entertainment, or company […]
Letting go – not because there is no choice (as I was wont to do in the past) but because it gives me joy and freedom to bless others with the same freedom with which I am loved. That is the freedom that God gives me every day… The freedom to make mistakes, to repent, […]
To mothers near, to mothers far; To mothers here, to mothers no longer with us; To mothers who love tenderly, to mothers who scold us fiercely. To mothers when they were our idols, to mothers when they were our enemies; To mothers when we couldn’t sleep without their embrace, to mothers when we couldn’t wait […]
Agnus Dei by Francisco de Zurbarán Mercy is love with real depth. It is a love that is able to bear the great tension between the holiness of God and sin. It is not rigid and unforgiving, but neither does it bend and change with the wind. Mercy is love rooted in Truth and enlarged beyond […]
One cannot proclaim the Risen Christ merely with words; others must see the Risen Christ in our lives. They must see us diseased, but now healed; Blind, but now with sight; Mute, but now speaking boldly; Captive, but now set free; Dead, but now fully alive. To believe in the Risen Christ is not an […]
Today the Earth is silent as she contemplates her Creator entombed within her womb. Beyond grief, Beyond regret, Beyond shame. Beyond agony, Beyond doubt, Beyond all thought. Here in the garden tomb there is nothing more to see or hear or touch. So let us fold the wings of our intellect for an eternal moment; Mute, let […]
