"Mostly we grow by falling apart." - Mary Sharon Moore, spiritual director Today is the Feast of All Souls. I am heavy-hearted but filled with hope. Maybe because I am, in recent years, more attuned to death and mortality. It is one of the many treasures we have in Catholicism - to pray for the … [Read more...] about Resurrections Happen Every Day
Reflections
Endings and Beginnings
The perfect ending: Ben and I together, sharing a sunset or maybe a bottle of wine. It is a quiet moment, one of shared tranquility, and it is in the silence that I am struck by the fact that things have shifted, and we survived some sort of storm. I will smile and reach for Ben's hand, then say, … [Read more...] about Endings and Beginnings
Moving from Trouble to Overcome
It was an ordinary work day for me back then. In my mid-twenties, I felt recently directionless - my only marriage prospect, a man I'd dated for four years, vanished from my life and started over with someone else. I had a college degree but no veritable work in my chosen field of psychology. The … [Read more...] about Moving from Trouble to Overcome
Death Creates Space Where New Life Flourishes
What are the tombs in my life? I have been pondering this since Holy Saturday - a day I used to believe got swallowed between the desolation of Good Friday and consolation of Easter Sunday. But I now know that Holy Saturday represents a powerful bridge between both desolation and consolation - … [Read more...] about Death Creates Space Where New Life Flourishes
Love Links Sorrow and Hope
I am awake early once again and it's Easter Sunday today. I glance out our back door. Dawn has not yet made its daily entrance; all remains dark, yet my heart fills with great hope in the midst of the black stillness. In many ways, it does not seem like Easter: no public Masses, no family … [Read more...] about Love Links Sorrow and Hope
The Act of Both Living and Dying
It is early morning on Good Friday, and I can feel the weight, the heaviness, of this day. Already I am entering into a sort of death as I accompany Jesus in my heart. It is death we most fear and hate; either that, or we dance with death in a macabre, almost diabolic romance. But death is a … [Read more...] about The Act of Both Living and Dying