Lord Receive My Memory
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When our memories are inseparable from the formation and understanding of our self, what does it mean to pray, "Lord, receive my memory."
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Prayers Before Zoom School
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My children, like so many in COVID times, are in Zoom school. Each morning we take our laptops to separate parts of the house to work, but before that we have what I like to call “Casa G Academy Morning Assembly.”
We meet in the living room 10 minutes before their school check-in. I make a few announcements like, We have online violin lessons later in the day, or, We need to eat the bananas before they go bad, or, Please, if you love your mother, spend a few minutes on the puzzle today, because I’m really getting tired of looking at it on the dining room table.
Read MoreSummer Prayer
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Will we look back at this time with nostalgia? Will we be reminded of the time we learned to be our true selves, the ones you created us to be? Will we remember this was the beginning of something beautiful or sacred?
Read MoreThe Hope of Sidewalk Victory Gardens
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“I love the sheer audacity of these gardens. In the midst of a global pandemic and civil unrest, there are people who endeavor to thrive.”
Read MoreJohn Singleton Copley's The Ascension
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I was asked to make a video reflection on John Singleton Copley’s painting The Ascension for Loyola Press’s Waiting for the Spirit retreat.
Read MoreLiving a Resurrection Life
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This is the moment when all those things I said I believed in, hold most true—under duress.
Read my reflection for Ignatian Spirituality.
Read MoreFinding God In Sunshine
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When winter is dark and long. My reflection for Ignatian Spirituality on Finding God in Sunshine
Read MoreSmall Changes for a Big Year: Choose Silence
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Sometimes it is a small change that makes the biggest difference in our mindset for a new year
Read MoreTo Give and Not Count the Cost
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My heart always sinks at the line in the Prayer for Generosity, “to give and not to count the cost,” because if I am truly honest with myself, I know I am always calculating the cost.
Read MoreSharing a Moment with a Stranger on Vacation
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Entering Westminster Abbey on vacation with my 10-year-old son, I overheard a man with an American accent ask, “Can we take photos?”
“No, sorry, sir,” the docent apologized.
I remembered being disappointed my last visit when I realized no photos were allowed.
Read MoreFour Hidden Places I’ve Found God
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In my practice of looking for God, it’s rarely in the spotlight moments that I find him. It’s in the small, hidden places that God chooses to reveal himself. Here are a few I noticed.
Read MoreLamentation: The Weight of Grief
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There is no way to prepare for the visceral images of six life-sized terracotta sculptures mourning over Christ’s body. The grief is palpable as viewers find themselves nearly frightened of the masterpiece. This grief is not quiet.
Read MoreWaving to a Stranger
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Do you wave to strangers? I do!
Well, not all the time.
Read about an experience I had while in Sabbatical in Italy over at Ignatian Spirituality.
Read MoreImaginative Prayer: Lunch With Christ
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“As a child I felt God’s presence strongly. I remember digging in my sandbox with Jesus or reading a picture book with him. It seemed every good thing was a delight God had left just for me to discover. I felt assured of God’s love as I felt his presence close.”
Read MoreFinding God in the Birds
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My reflection for Ignatian Spirituality on Finding God in All Things...even birds. Read my reflection here.
How Finding a Spiritual Director Changed My Life
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“Who do you imagine as a spiritual director?” Carla, the coordinator at my local Ignatian Spirituality Center asked. I started to laugh as the image of Don Porter, the actor who played Sally Field’s father on the television show, “Gidget” flashed in my mind.
Read MoreCatholic Voices - Make a joyful noise!
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It doesn’t matter what you sound like, just sing to God with the voice God gave you
Read MoreThe Light of Grace is Always Shining
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Poet Chris Anderson speaks of the Examen in this way: “The light of grace is always shining, it’s always pouring down, through it’s refracted and scattered and easy to miss, and so one way to pray is to look back on the moments of our day and recall when we saw the light breaking through.”
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