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Be the One Who Gives
More blessed to give than to receive. // Acts 20:35 Holding expectations of people’s generosity toward me is something I did not know that I kept track of. At least...
Your Heart's Yearnings
Here comes that master dreamer! Come on, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here; we could say that a wild beast devoured him. We...
My Tongue, God's Blessing
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. // James 3:10 A childhood friend and I went on a short hike in Southern California on a warm spring day. We...
Not a Failure in Your Faith
"Because he is found by those who do not test him, and manifests himself to those who do not disbelieve him" (Wisdom 1:2). I am constantly ebbing and flowing between...
Shifting from Imperfection
I have nearly died three times in my life. I was almost aborted, experienced a break-in, and survived a rollover car crash. I only became aware of the responsibility I...
Bringing that Conviction into Our Hearts
Mary Magdalene, sweet Mary Magdalene. I like to think of her as the patron saint of conviction and metanoia, conversion or a change of heart. In this day and age...
Conceiving the Unimaginable
Sometimes God says some crazy things in Scripture. I'm serious. If I were ninety-year-old Sarah hearing what Abraham hears in today’s reading, I would laugh and be incredibly baffled, in...
Dreaming with the Lord
When I was a little girl, I felt so free to dream! I would tell everyone I wanted to be an archeologist because I desired to excavate the bones of...
Bold Questions to Our Author
God writes our stories. Past, present, and future. He's the best author, amen?! But it's also okay to question why things happen. When we read in the Acts of the...
When You Don't Want To Be Entrusted
Entrustment. To entrust to someone is to give in trust. In Polish, our beloved Pope Saint John Paul II describes this as “zawierzenie” a term used to describe entrustment and...
Where Are You, Daughter?
"Hey friend! Where are you?" Isn't that a common question when we receive a call from someone? We are in constant desire to want to know where our people are....
Be-Loved, Sister
"Beloved" (1 John 4:11). Whenever God starts with this word, He instantaneously captivates me. It must be the cheesy romantic in me. Yet when the commandment to love one another...
