I had a post all ready to share about living in the tensions of our lives when last night at 11pm the news hit about Osama Bin Laden being killed. I had wanted to share how Ignatius saw living in tension to be a good thing because we can find God or invitations from God in all things. Anytime we are living in the black and white, acting with total certainty about anything other than the presence of God in the moment at hand, we are not living in …

Yesterday I returned from a retreat at St. Benedict’s Center in Schuyler, Nebraska. Just me, the pond (which they call a lake but being from the Great Lakes State I know is actually a pond), and the comfy brown easy chair in the quiet single room… three days, no computer, no phone, no friends or family. I felt very Ignatian! And though I wrote and wrote while I was there, now I am struggling to know how to share from this, my first ever spiritual retreat.
Whenever I write about spirituality I find I try too hard to …

Where do we begin?  How do we speak of you?
We say that Jesus is the Son, eternally begotten from the Father.  We are still not sure how this works.  We say that the Father and the Son are analogous terms, used to describe something of the nature of God and how God relates to humanity.  These terms, though, speak of things that are in eternity.  We do not understand eternity.  We might recognize that eternity is not forever, that it is a state of being outside of time, but all …

As a writer, I find lovely little consolations in grasping just the right words to convey an experience. So when one of the most articulate teachers I’ve ever had told me I needed to listen for what wasn’t said, I was very perplexed. How could I possibly know what wasn’t said?  Any of 10,000 things could have NOT been said.  What’s important to me is what WAS said, the words, the tone, the intention.  But alas, today, I came to understand the ways in which my teacher was exactly in …