God is not limited
I felt like a kid throwing a tantrum: “I can’t do this, God!” I thought back to the previous day’s Sunday Mass — our parish priest preaching from our television…
I felt like a kid throwing a tantrum: “I can’t do this, God!” I thought back to the previous day’s Sunday Mass — our parish priest preaching from our television…
I was speaking to a friend on the phone who is expecting her first child. Her voice broke as she cried, “I’ve been waiting so long for this baby, but…
In perhaps the most beautiful passage in his Confessions, St. Augustine writes, “For behold thou wert within me, and I outside … .” The great Doctor of the Church, reflecting…
If there was ever a time for the world to hit the reset button in our lives, Lent seems to be the most appropriate time. And this year, in the…
“You should go eat dinner on the other side of the lake; it’s cheaper over there.” Standing at the top of the Alps, my friend and I absorbed the man’s…
“At all times bless the Lord, your God, and ask him that all your paths may be straight and all your endeavors and plans may prosper” (Tb 4:19). Gazing upon…
“He has remembered his mercy and faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God” (Ps 98:3). When we look…
Maybe it’s the early onset of fall this year, or the stress of tackling a new semester in grad school, or the quiet misery of a recent 30-day detox diet,…
I sat in the bathroom sobbing. There was an emptiness, a numbness that was consuming my heart and at times my marriage. It was a slow, engulfing despair that sought…
Philosophers and scientists have grappled over the centuries to define beauty. But in my experience, beauty is a transcendent quality that draws me into a totally selfless response to the…