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The Difference Between Guilt and Shame
I’ve been on a quest over the last year to understand shame. A bit of backstory to explain this journey. I first heard someone talk about shame a few years ago. In one ear and out the other. He talked...
View ArticleThree things to pray for during election season
Election season is here again. As if the Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t brought enough stress, we have a contentious election that promises to be another rainstorm of anxiety.Did I mention that a Supreme...
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What Not to do on a Sunday
Sundays are probably the least understood day of the week. Think about it for a moment:Monday- pumped up, let’s go!Tuesday- settling in, building momentum.Wednesday- hump day, sigh of relief.Thursday-...
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Aching and Longing
In The Cloud of Unknowing, the author writes, “I tell you this, one loving blind desire for God alone is more valuable in itself, more pleasing to God and to the saints, more beneficial to your own...
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The Problem with Advent
Advent is difficult.It gets overlooked because of Christmas- the whole mess of it. The shopping, the lights, decorations, songs, and Hallmark movies. If you’re Catholic and feel like a phony during...
View ArticleThe Waiting Belongs to God
As Advent continues, we continue to hold up our waiting and ask God to bless it. We wait in more ways than we know. Typically, we think of waiting in terms of a line at the store or test results from...
View ArticlePeace throughout advent days
We’ve been speaking about Advent as a time of holy waiting. This is a time to see waiting in a new light as we anticipate a liturgical feast (Christmas) and anticipate a cosmic event (the Second...
View ArticleI’ll Wait With You
It’s mid December and the Lehigh Valley has its first snow storm of the winter. Actually, the entire NorthEast is digging out today from a fresh delivery of white stuff. We waited for it, collectively...
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No need for a white Christmas
As we put the finishing touches on Christmas preparation, things feel particularly off this year. Pandemic on our minds, our gatherings will be smaller and our travel more simple. The date on the...
View Articlereturn to sender: the gift of regret
Too often, we approach Christmas and then the end of a year with regret. These can be short term (in the past 12 months) or more far reaching:If only I had done this in the past yearIf only I had said...
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A Redeemer We can Relate To
Why didn’t Jesus come as a powerful ruler? Surely, his fame would have spread faster if he had a better title, more money and a place of authority. These were the signs of the Messiah, or so thought...
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A Productivity Wish List for 2021
2020 was a year unlike any other. If you’re a productivity geek, it didn’t disappoint. Whether we talk about the release of Hey from Basecamp, the delight of using Craft, the ease of Boards within...
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Living in the Moment
If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that the present moment is more fragile than we had previously thought. What we had considered as stable became tentative and untrustworthy- health, the economy, and...
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Time to be Honest about Daily Prayer
Think of the last time that your daily prayer time was truly different. I can’t define for you exactly what that looks like but I imagine that it offered glimpses of: claritylistening lingering in...
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The Many Things that God has to Say
I’m a terrible listener when it comes to my relationship with God. Very good at talking, not as skilled when it comes to hearing God’s voice.Sure, there have been moments over the years when I had a...
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An Invitation to The Quiet Life
When I told my neighbor that my kids had another snow day, she said, “what’s a snow day anymore, right?” What she meant was that schooling during Covid times has changed the meaning of a school day....
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What is the Quiet Life?
A friend of mine had a baby and then disappeared from Facebook. It was as if something more important (someone actually) had entered her life, leaving Facebook as a casualty on the side of the road....
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A Core Component to the Quiet Life: the Low Information Diet
In 2020, I found that I would have to pause my news intake periodically. Keep in mind that I nearly majored in politics as an undergrad and have long fashioned myself as a “news junkie”. Nonetheless,...
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A Definition of The Quiet Life
We’ve discussed the value of quiet living and the concept of the low information diet but what exactly is The Quiet Life? Rather than simply consuming less news, it can be defined as the following:A...
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