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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. Luke 13:34 Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of...
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“The body is a sacrament . . . a visible sign of invisible grace . . . The body is the mirror where the secret world of the soul comes to expression.” – John O’Donohue in Anam Cara The weekend before Lent started, I noticed that I’d fallen into an old...
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And in that instant I understood that if I were to pay attention to the spaces between and just behind the things I thought I needed to look at, there was no limit to what I might witness . . . It’s not just the genius or the personal friend of [God] who...
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Toward the end of our time together, I mentioned to my spiritual director that I was considering what kind of practice I might embrace for Lent, but didn’t really know where to begin. She grew animated and explained that Lent is a time to join Jesus in the...
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(Tuesday was my thirteenth wedding anniversary and in the wintry slump of sick kids, it was tempting to feel a little discouraged. And yet, there remains, between my husband and I, much to be encouraged about. This post is for my husband, whom I...
