Now what? It’s Easter Monday. Mondays are generally hard to get started on but I’m feeling especially challenged today. Why? Because Jesus died and rose from the dead and I don’t know what – or how – to get this week properly started. Everything I can think of to do is just so minor. So […]

The past two weeks have had me in more directions emotionally than I had expected. They all came in a rush with more highs and lows than I could have foreseen. Truthfully, most of them were not at all related to our circumstances and the state of our world in pandemic. Some of them were […]

Yes… I am quite aware that it is late-March and I just determined my word of the year!   In case you are not familiar with picking a word of the year, a neat way to start the new year (or to start your April) is to pray about a word that God wants to […]

My high school orchestra director, Mrs. Wilcox, gave me a memorable musical phrase some 30 years ago. Trying to show one of the students in our group how to fearlessly bring out her part, she loudly sang the notes: “Yes!  I am here; I have arrived!” Mrs. Wilcox’s willingness to be goofy, along with the […]

This really could become some of our finest days, and weeks and months. For most of us, how we respond to the Covid-19 situation is not about us. For one of those rare times, our actions are about something much bigger than ourselves. We are living in a time when our actions will have a […]

Do not be afraid, for I am with you; do not be alarmed, for I am your God. I give you strength, truly I help you, truly I hold you firm with my saving right hand. – Isaiah 41:10 In some respects our lives are different since Covid-19.  No doubt you are washing your hands more […]

“For people of faith there are no coincidences, only aspects of God’s providence that we have not yet fully understood.” –St. John Paul II None of us could have expected how our lives would be radically changed, turned upside down, so quickly and so decisively as in these past weeks. Schools and restaurants closed, businesses […]

14 hours. That is what stands between now and picking up my daughter, becoming a mom for good. I can’t tell you all the emotions that I am feeling at this moment. I am so beyond excited and feeling incredibly blessed, but obviously fear of the unknown and nerves are creeping in as the clock […]

On Ash Wednesday we heard, “Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.” I have spent time this Lent reflecting on that, and searching for its meaning. If you presume that it means we that we are nothing but dirt and lowly, it can be depressing to consider. But that is not […]

I walk down the hallway facing an unfamiliar place with an unplanned journey ahead. Her room is empty, so I retrace my steps back to the common area and hear a voice, clearly confused and uncertain. My eyes scan the faces and scene in front of me, then I see her. The one who I’ve […]