In God’s Hands

Wednesday’s Reflection PAIN AND SORROW are never wasted when given into God’s hands, and their transformation is far beyond our imaginings. But in this life, we will experience a poignancy, a regret that harm was done when our actions could have been different. This poignancy is a valid, healthy part of our journey of release. [...]

Discernment

Tuesday’s Reflection THE LATIN ROOT of the word discernment has to do with sifting and separating. … The work of discerning one direction or choice from among many may require that we separate ourselves, that we go into a desert: a figurative one, if not actual. Removing ourselves from at least some of our usual [...]

Questions

Monday’s Reflection What is my calling?Is there something specific I’ve been called to do? Which path do I take? There are so many choices.Which one do I choose? Is there really One who can guide me,help me make the right choice?If God is really out there calling me,why can’t I hear that voice? When will [...]

Remembering God’s Bounty

Sunday’s Reflection WHEN THE PRESENT IS DIFFICULT, we too easily forget past experience of God’s bounty, the tables spread with blessing when we were most conscious of our poverty and need. If we choose to remember the grace of God toward us in the past, the present is transformed by hope, and dry places become [...]

Suggestions for a Half-Day Retreat

Saturday’s Reflection Start with prayer. Ask God for the grace to enter into this special time with an open mind and an open heart. Create a sacred space in a quiet corner, near a window if possible. Let that be the place where you pray. Find a cloth for the table. Assemble objects that feel [...]

God’s Guidance

Friday’s Reflection GOD’S GUIDANCE COMES TO US not only in prayer and through practices such as lectio divina [meditative reading of scripture and reflecting on what God might be saying to us through the passage], but also in the activism of tending the wounds and needs of others. While we are serving others, God’s persistent, [...]

Unexpected Grace

Today’s Reflection GRACE OFTEN COMES in unexpected ways and unexpected places. However it comes, it is always unmerited, pure gift. We cannot earn it, purchase it, or even destroy it. The writer of Ephesians makes this clear in the second chapter: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your [...]

God’s Love for Us

Wednesday’s Reflection HOW COULD A GOD so amazing and perfect love me? God’s thoughts are constantly on us. God loves us, and the power of that love is more than enough to help us weed out the troubles in our lives. How can we love God? We can start by embracing God’s love and making [...]

Growing in Grace

Tuesday’s Reflection GRACIOUS LORD, you are the beginning and ending of all things, my center and my circumference: root and fix me in you in such a way that my soul finds rest in its true home and never stops growing in grace, safe and secure in your loving embrace. Amen. – A Life-Shaping Prayer: [...]

Go and Love Our Neighbors

Monday’s Reflection THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN is one of the most well known stories in the Bible and one most of us have heard many times, either in Sunday school or from the pulpit. And thanks to the marvels of YouTube, you can watch scores and scores of different visual interpretations of this [...]

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