This is going to sound sadder than it really is. In fact, it’s not sad at all. It’s just life. And life is terribly beautiful. When I was a baby, I sucked my thumb, like I had undoubtedly done in utero, as babies will do. My big sister (then three years old) tried to get […]
This is a year of pandemic, recession, protests, riots, bitter contest, and division. This also happens to be the year that began with my decision to read works by mystics and contemplatives. I’m sharing here a prayer, an insight, a well-springing of goodness in faith, the heart of which started to beat as I was […]
The mask of bright-leafed gaiety drops away and displays the bare truth, vulnerable and thin without the show of exuberance. Let’s not pretend, you and I, that life is easy and fair. Let’s face ourselves as we truly are: sometimes empty, sometimes full, broken, healing, gnarled, and weak; no need to hide death with pretty […]
This poetic prayer, which came to me not long ago, seems appropriate to share with the upcoming Feasts of All Saints and All Souls, as well as the impending US election. Lord, I am weak, and I need You. I seek your remedy and protection, because my heart beats within the mantle of Your Sacred […]
I, someone with a progressive disease, disabled since infancy and gravely dependent on others, have been told to offer up my sufferings to God, so that He will make something sublimely beautiful out of them. Shouldn’t I, however, offer up my whole life to God, so that He may bless and transform the entirety of […]
