The Visitation, by Jacopo Pontormo is one of the paintings I most often display in my Spiritual Direction office during the season of advent. Pontormo depicts the moment of Mary and Elizabeth’s meeting, as described in Luke 1:39-56. In it, the two women, each...
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash If the weather-watchers are correct, we’re due for snow tomorrow and possibly more on Sunday. Snow in March isn’t unusual, but it’s definitely unwelcome. Arriving just as the world starts to sing its wake-up...
Each bee senses that her one obligation is to give the smallest motion of her flight muscles to the collective work of keeping the queen and the colony’s honey stores warm. The whole hive knows they survive only if they shiver together. Some of them in the...
Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash Because my husband and I reached a moment of clarity when his truck, again, needed extensive repairs we couldn’t afford. “Something needs to change,” we said, together, and the words set like concrete,...
I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My beloved is knocking. Song of Solomon 5:2 Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now when we became believers; the night is...
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