Sacred Meditations

The Small Heart That Overflows in Agonizing Love

The Small Heart That Overflows in Agonizing Love

Have you ever a letter or a card to someone you love deeply, only to have it returned unopened? Or perhaps you’ve reached out to a child who has grown...

The Small Heart That Overflows in Agonizing Love

Have you ever a letter or a card to someone you love deeply, only to have it returned unopened? Or perhaps you’ve reached out to a child who has grown...

For the Lonely: When Everyone Walks Away

For the Lonely: When Everyone Walks Away

Have you ever poured your life into something, or someone, only to find yourself standing alone when the storm rolled in? Perhaps you mentored a colleague who later took credit...

For the Lonely: When Everyone Walks Away

Have you ever poured your life into something, or someone, only to find yourself standing alone when the storm rolled in? Perhaps you mentored a colleague who later took credit...

Avoiding Stupid and Senseless Controversies

Avoiding Stupid and Senseless Controversies

You can feel it happening before it happens. Someone posts something on social media. A relative makes a comment at the dinner table. A coworker offers an opinion about something...

Avoiding Stupid and Senseless Controversies

You can feel it happening before it happens. Someone posts something on social media. A relative makes a comment at the dinner table. A coworker offers an opinion about something...

The Prayer That Asks for Nothing

The Prayer That Asks for Nothing

There is a particular kind of silence that falls upon your soul when someone you love walks into it. You may have been waiting for them, perhaps with news to...

The Prayer That Asks for Nothing

There is a particular kind of silence that falls upon your soul when someone you love walks into it. You may have been waiting for them, perhaps with news to...

The Ocean Beneath Our Failures

The Ocean Beneath Our Failures

There is a moment familiar to anyone who has ever tried, really tried, to grow in holiness. You catch yourself in the same fault you confessed last month. Perhaps last...

The Ocean Beneath Our Failures

There is a moment familiar to anyone who has ever tried, really tried, to grow in holiness. You catch yourself in the same fault you confessed last month. Perhaps last...

The Shape of Love

The Shape of Love

Imagine you tell your child, “I love you,” and then proceed to feed them only candy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You skip their doctor’s appointments because the waiting room...

The Shape of Love

Imagine you tell your child, “I love you,” and then proceed to feed them only candy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You skip their doctor’s appointments because the waiting room...