September 23, 2025 For the past few months, this blog has been focused on works of creativity as acts of resistance to the powers that be and a means of resilience that remind us we are not alone even as the world turns upside-down and inside-out. This morning’s post will be the last in thisContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Offering”
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Resistance and Resilience: Stillness
Photograph (c) Lois Justrabo “Be still and know that I am God.” (Ps. 46:10) In these tense months since Donald Trump became President and his administration began shredding the Constitution, I have walked a constant tightrope between despair and hope. In trying to maintain that impossible stance, I’ve come to realize that now, more thanContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Stillness”
The God-kiss
March 11, 2025 Some years ago, a term came to my mind that describes the serendipitous, often unnoticed, gifts that Love provides us. I call them “God-kisses.” They’ve always been, always will be, yet how often we miss them. Yesterday, I received such a kiss, though I almost stepped on it. I was walking throughContinueContinue reading “The God-kiss”
Lent Day One: Anthony De Mello
February 14, 2024 “Both what you run away from—and yearn for—is in you.” Anthony De Mello, Society of Jesus I begin these Lenten day blogs with a quotation from Fr. Anthony de Mello that seemed to peg me. I sometimes wonder if we really are as complex as we imagine we are, or if, instead, weContinueContinue reading “Lent Day One: Anthony De Mello”
God is Love
August 12, 2021 “God is love.” (1 John 4:16) I’m told confession is good for the soul. Let’s find out. Often in my blogs, I comment on how essential it is in this turbulent and angry world to be still, to take a time out, to step back, to watch what we say. However, sometimesContinueContinue reading “God is Love”
The Year that Wasn’t
Recently I had the opportunity, after over a year, to visit a friend and have a cup of tea with her. As we conversed about the ongoing pandemic, she referred to 2020 as “the year that wasn’t.” At first I thought that was a clever and succinct summary of 2020 when the world was lockedContinueContinue reading “The Year that Wasn’t”
And it is good . . .
Awaken to the mystery of being hereand enter the immensity of your own presence.Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses. . . .Be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.May you experience each day as a sacred gift wovenaround a heart of wonder. For Presence, John O’Donohue I take part inContinueContinue reading “And it is good . . .”
Spring Cleaning 2021
During this past year of pandemic and politics, I admit that I have not accomplished the numerous projects I’ve heard other people claim during this “stay at home” time. I have not repainted a single room. I have not learned a new language. I have not come to love cooking, especially after doing it threeContinueContinue reading “Spring Cleaning 2021”
Each New Day
At the beginning of each day,after we open our eyesto receive the lightof that day, As we listen to the voicesand the soundsthat surround us, We must resolve to treat each houras the rarest of gifts,and be gratefulfor the consciousnessthat allows us to experience it,recalling in thanksthat our awareness is a presentfrom we know notContinueContinue reading “Each New Day”
A Poem About Lent
This blog, offered in the transitional time between winter and spring, as the earth reawakens, as we continue rising from ashes to hope (an ongoing journey), as many religious traditions invite us to a time of introspection, honesty, and repentance, is, I pray each time I post, a place of respite where words of gentlenessContinueContinue reading “A Poem About Lent”
Spirit Reflections 