It is the Lord!
Happy Easter Monday, friends! Once again, Ruth invites us to celebrate the risen Jesus through five powerful post-resurrection encounters. We’ve reflected on these stories before, yet they continue to speak.…
Staying Awake During Holy Week
Lectionary readings and guidance on using the lectionary Monday of Holy Week (April 14, 2025): Isaiah 42:1-9, Psalm 36:5-11, Hebrews 9:11-15, John 12:1-11 “Stay together, friends, don’t scatter and sleep.…
“We do not know God by thinking, but by encountering.” –John of the Cross As my director and I transitioned…
“A spiritual director is one who helps another recognize and follow the inspirations of grace in his life, in order…
“Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made…
“The reason we do not see God is the faintness of our desire.” –Meister Eckhart Truth be told, it was…
New leadership is needed for new times, but it will not come from finding more wiley ways to manipulate the…
Lee Ann Waters Thornton, of Austin, Texas, died Thursday November 9, 2023 after a courageous seven-year battle with endometrial cancer.…
The Spirit helps us in our weakness…for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very…
When words fail, let silence be your prayer. Lean into the ministry of the Holy Spirit, trusting that even when…
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