You’ve read about my experiences praying with PTSD in other posts, such as “The Discipline of Weeping” and “Return to…
I wrote those words over 20 years ago when I began to reflect on the way Christ came to me…
For those of us who ask the help of saints in our daily lives, one of the first questions that…
Our family prayer corner is filled with gilded handwritten icons that catch the eye, but today I want to talk…
The most common reaction to the divine presence throughout history has been terror. Love is a consuming fire. We cannot…
He wasn’t very large when I sang him his first aria. My younger newborn twin, our baby B, was…
How to Tell Your Dad He’s Going to Die: Ancient Christian Prayer as a Model for Saying Goodbye After fifteen…
When I was a child, sometimes ends would not meet. We would have to put things in hawk (pawn them).…
Every now and then, the work of years clarifies itself into a moment of grace. In May 2012, during my…
Activate homing signals! Eight years ago, my baby sister tried twice to take her own life. As I reached out…