Spirituality

A new year has come to us all. We each may receive it with a variety of emotions. Yet, many of us are drawn to the idea of a fresh start, a new beginning, a clean slate. Each year, I enter a quiet practice shared by many: prayerfully listening for a word to carry into…

We have entered into Advent 2025. This liturgical season often holds the tension of a longing for stillness to wait for and ponder Christ’s coming anew in our lives at Christmas, AND being immersed in the seemingly relentless activity of the Christmas season. Not wanting to add MORE to your plate, I am simply going…

We have entered into Advent 2025. This liturgical season often holds the tension of a longing for stillness to wait for and ponder Christ’s coming anew in our lives at Christmas, AND being immersed in the seemingly relentless activity of the Christmas season. Not wanting to add MORE to your plate, I am simply going…

This month I’m sharing another of my reflections from my Spiritual Direction school days in 2020 on Teresa of Ávila, whose feast day we celebrated last month. We were to read and reflect on The Interior Castle (The Mansions) – her masterpiece, describing the soul’s journey to union with God through seven “mansions” or stages…

Here is another one of my assignments I wrote in 2020 for my Spiritual Classics course. Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was a Benedictine abbess, visionary, composer, and writer. She recorded mystical visions, composed sacred music, and wrote on theology, nature, and medicine. Canonized and named a Doctor of the Church, she is remembered as one…

This month I’m going to continue sharing from reflections I wrote in 2020 for the Spiritual Classics course I took while studying to be certified as a spiritual director. We read You Set My Spirit Free: A 40-Day Journey in the Company of John of the Cross. St. John of the Cross (1542–1591) was a…

  I marvel at how God has designed the rhythm of the four seasons where we live in Arkansas— a state affectionately called “God’s country.” With each season, God invites us to both an end and a beginning. Like many of you, I enjoy approaching the summer season with plans of finishing certain activities and…

“No eye has seen nor ear has heard nor mind has even conceived what God has in store for those who love Him.” (1 Corinthians 2:19 quoting Isaiah 64:4) What blessings the traditional liturgical season has offered us of late: Eastertide, followed by Pentecost, and the month of June’s focus on the Sacred Heart of…