The word retrospective means “looking back.” In writing the poem, I looked back, re-read a journal entry from April 2023.

On this Easter morn, let us heed the command to start again, to reinterpret everything in our own lives and all of history in the… Read More »Easter Sunday: Living the power of Christ’s resurrection

As we move toward celebrating the holiest week of our liturgical year, God continues to say, “If only you believe, you will experience my death… Read More »Fifth Sunday of Lent: If only we will believe

Jesus’ healing action for the blind man — which happened on a Sabbath — spurred deeper questions: How and when does God act in our… Read More »Fourth Sunday of Lent: Master a new way of seeing

Our God thirsts for real presence, for contentious or questioning prayer, for genuine interaction that opens us.

The story of the Transfiguration bids us to let go of inadequate images of God in order to discover something new. Free of our preconceptions,… Read More »Second Sunday of Lent: Go forth

Lent offers us the opportunity to spend time asking ourselves who we are at our core and who God wants to help us become. Growing… Read More »First Sunday of Lent: Daughters and sons of God

Whether we realize it or not, we belong to God just as much as Jesus did. On this Fourth Sunday of Advent, let us contemplate… Read More »Fourth Week of Advent: Belonging to God

Where do we find Christ active today? In this season, and always, we are called to be the lights that manifest the presence of Christ… Read More »Third Week of Advent: Called to be light

This second Sunday of Advent invites us all to make straight the paths, to remind ourselves that Christ is alive and the Spirit is active… Read More »Second Week of Advent: Belief in the promise