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For When Jesus Asks Ridiculous Things
Following Jesus doesn’t make much sense sometimes. I am struck by the wild things Jesus asks his disciples to do when...
Letting God Light My Path
I walked through my poorly lit college campus on a cold, dark Monday night carrying a few books and a heavy heart. As...
Finding Color in the Dark Days
How many times do I lean into my own spiritual colorblindness?
How often do I find myself actively seeking out that w...
Finding Hope After Unanswered Prayers
I don’t know about you, but I have yet to experience a more slow and agonizing year than this one. Nothing has gone a...
Does God Even See My Offering?
Life right now for me feels heavy and hard; my faith feels as small as a mustard seed.
Then I remember the small deta...
Allowing Light to Come from the Darkness
A year of struggles, fear, suffering, sadness and even despair… It feels as if it had been a year when days grow shor...
Finding Direction When I'm Greatly Troubled
Despite the normalcy of Mary’s image in my everyday, I still find it hard to relate to this figure so innate to my Ca...
What Does Jesus Really Know About Being Human?
Today’s Gospel reading brings back more childhood memories for me of scripture that seemed foreign and honestly, just...
Resting and Resetting When the World Just Keeps Moving
To find Jesus, is to look to the humble, the lowly. To find Jesus is to take refuge in the Lord. For me, I find Jes...
Shining Your Light in a Darkened World
When a lighthouse is in use, you can’t actually see the lighthouse, you can only see the light it gives off. And in t...
I Feel Dull and Old, But God Says Otherwise
I believed with my whole heart that I was headed to South America for a greater purpose. No, I wasn’t on an organized...
When the Fiat is a Fight
In life, I have considered two possible options for my future self: assume a perfect life or fail. There was no other...