This is Isaiah, age 1.5, discovering there’s candy inside of his plastic Easter egg. He was happy with the egg itself, but when I showed him what was inside, his whole demeanor changed. Something similar happens in Spiritual Direction. The slowness and...
(Bunia and Grandma Hausknecht at our wedding, no shared language except love.) Dobre dien. (Good morning.) Dobranich. (Good night.) Dyakuyu. (Thank you.) Shcho stalos? (What happened?) // I was twenty years old when I promised my soon-to-be mother-in-law I would learn...
What color is joy? My Spiritual Director once asked me to describe the joy I was feeling. I told her it was like a big bouquet of flowers. She then asked, “What color are the flowers?” “All the happy colors,” I replied. I felt a shock of joy on...
The COVID-19 pandemic has pulled back so many layers of denial and illusion in our corporate and personal lives. In the forced slowing, in the unexpected losses, many of us have discovered new truths not just about the world, but about our deepest selves. In this time...
“Only love is capable of genuine transformation. Willpower is inadequate. Even spiritual effort is not up to the task. If we are to become great lovers, we must return again and again to the great love of the Great Lover.” – David Benner in Sacred...
I write for a local ministry’s newsletter once a month. For awhile now, I’ve looked back through old writing and offered that for their publication, but this month I wanted to share something new. Problem was, I didn’t have any “fresh”...
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