Sacred Moments
Where I find God and glimpses of his beauty, goodness, and truth in the ordinary moments of my day, and where I wrestle with the little and big things, the everyday and the eternal.
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A Lenten practice of letting go
I heard a little quiet voice inside inviting me to let it go this Holy Week. To just let go of my way. To stop chasing a vision of what I want life to be right now and to just be with what is.
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God wastes nothing
He uses everything. He works in the awkward conversations we didn't know how to handle, the presentation we fumble through, the tears we shed when we let others see that we're human too, the messy part of life that we wished looked a little more put together.
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When I love God more
When I love God more, I love myself more. I love the image of God inside me. I even begin to love my inadequacies and limits and shortcomings because of the way they draw me back to him.
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What faith is
Faith is one big trust-fall into the arms of a gracious Father whose steadfast love fills the hole in my heart so much so that I cannot help but believe its all true.
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The love of Christ changes everything
The love of Christ empowers me more than any self-help book I've ever read, calms my mind more than any coping skill I've tried, satisfies the striving deep within I could never put words to, yet built my life around trying to fix, solve, and quench.
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God comes to us
God comes to us in our feelings of smallness, insecurity, and shame. When we leave prematurely, or turn away, he doesn't give up. When we feel out of place and uncomfortable, he finds us. Most of all, he doesn't come to shame or condemn, but to bless us.
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Divine Hiddenness and St. John of the Cross
Divine Hiddenness Over the last couple of years I’ve been reading through a series of essays on divine hiddenness, written by philosophers and theologians, Christian and non-Christian, who attempt to put words to the nature of God and why His presence feels so distant at times. I started exploring…
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Reflections On the Love of God
“To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved — this and only this can cast out fear. Let a man become convinced that nothing can harm him and instantly for him all fear goes out of…
