A poem from Chris Williams, S.J. opens us up to understanding a little more deeply what it is to love God and to receive God’s love in return. Williams says, “I think a parent knows best / What it means to love someone purely, / Not for what they get from them.”
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I Am in Awe and Wonder of God Whenever I Pray
The mystery of wonder involved in the Spiritual Exercises consists of meeting people in their spiritual journeys with God. The wonder includes accompanying with love and compassion, helping people remember they are precious creatures of creation.
To Change You Have to Feel Both the Push of Discomfort and the Pull of Hope
A stately-looking older gentleman walked into the classroom and introduced himself as the professor. After a terse jaunt through the syllabus, he looked up from the podium suddenly and posed the question: Who here believes that a person can change?
This Is Why I Dare to Pray
In the last year, a small phrase from the Mass I’d not previously paid much attention to, I learned to love. It is the preface to the Our Father when the priest says, “At the savior’s command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say…”
The Day After Christmas I Think about Death
It’s December 26th. The day after Christmas. And, weirdly, while we celebrated a birth yesterday, we remember a death today.
I Don’t Want to Brag: What it Means to Boast with God
A poem about the beauty that comes from being broken and the gift of others loving you into existence.
I Love Jesus But Sometimes I Can’t Stand Other Christians
I admit that I struggle with this question, in large part because I struggle with the same thing. And if I am being really honest, I do sometimes lament my fellow Christians whose views and sensibilities – political, theological, and otherwise – diverge so significantly from my own.
Stephen Colbert, Solanus Casey, and Walter Ciszek on Gratitude
Lessons on gratitude from the Late Show host and two men on the path to canonization.
Desert Grace
Let nothing but God quench your thirst.
The Spirit’s Whispers: A Poem
Have you ever struggled for the perfect words in prayer? You aren’t alone.