May 13, 2018 | blog, My Contemplative Heart, Parenting, Prayer
God is my mother, I am safe in God’s love. God invites me to climb up in her lap, Wrapped securely in her arms. She runs her fingers through my hair And hums a lullaby...
Sep 4, 2014 | Lent, Rhythm
“There needs to be another Lent,” I complained to my husband just the other day. “Fall feels like just the right time to start to wonder about what places in me need to die.” When the kids go back to school and red delicious apples are juicy, I find myself aching for...
Nov 20, 2013 | blog, home
“and the two shall become one…” It is such a mysterious thing. How do 2 become 1? Even I know that is really bad math. Fourteen years ago there were two young, really young, people with dreams and hopes and very little else. But now, it is hard to know where one one...
Nov 18, 2013 | blog, home
It’s probably not hard for anyone to feel gratitude for beauty. But it seems to me that I experience beauty all the way to core of my being. I don’t just see it; I feel it, I smell it, my heart beats in time with it. Beauty calls me back to the goodness of the one who...