Tears streamed down my dear friend’s cheeks. She was exhausted. She was overwhelmed. She had been detailing the challenges of trying to find mental health care for her six year old son whose erratic behavior had caused her to question her capacity to parent, her support of the school system, and even to a point, her faith in God. The truth is that she is by far the most devoted, nurturing, supportive mother I have ever known. She’s the kind of mom who, recognizing her son’s tactile nature, made …

Perhaps it will happen only once in your lifetime. Ignatius said that more was revealed to him sitting by the Cardoner River in Manressa than in the rest of his entire life. Mother Theresa clearly remembered receiving her “call within a call” on a train ride in Darjeeling, India. Albert Einstein was able to articulate the theory of relativity after an image “came to him” of what it would be like to be riding on a lightning bolt. Perhaps it is the moment Michelanglo envisioned in his painting in …

I have hit upon the ultimate Ignatian gift—really-it is courageously perfect for anyone on your list, particularly people in the 1/3 minority, western, developed world.
In Ignatius’ Principle and Foundation for loving God, we are called to hold all created “things” in balance and use them so far as they bring us closer to God and the person we are called to be and rid ourselves of them in so far as they distract us or move us away from God and the person we are called to be.

I did something really radical last week. I occupied Omaha.
Under the guise of taking my dog for a nice long walk, I marched through the streets of downtown with hundreds of other people carrying signs ranging from “Close the Fed” to “We are the balance to their checks!” Unlike the violent protests depicted on TV, the Omaha event was more parade of hope. Omaha protesters are obscenely nice. We love our police! We obey all traffic rules. We make way for people pushing baby carriages.
And yet, I found it …