As we go through this heated, nasty, hyped-up election season, do you ever feel like you’ve been exiled to another planet? Or that you’d like to be? While fiery rhetoric is not new to our democratic process, the coarseness on the campaign trail this season seems to have dropped to a new low – a […]
“I will sing of the steadfastness love of the Lord, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.” Psalm 89:1 Those of us who are mothers know that from their infancy on we are prone to making comparisons of our own children with their peers, carefully charting their development with “the […]
“May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.” Proverbs 5:18 Sometimes weddings seem to take on a life of their own by giving us a little taste of heaven: the pageantry of the groom with his attendants eagerly awaiting his beloved; all in attendance rising in anticipation as the […]
“For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere …” (Psalm 84:10a) Our silent retreat, “Come to the Well,” proved to be a divine appointment for each one of us who cleared her calendar to spend the day at the Marianist Retreat and Conference Center, in Eureka, Missouri. We quenched our thirsty […]