A few things have been happening
as of late when I sit down to pray.
Option 1: Obligations stretch out before me. Reading, papers, exams, committee meetings, conferences, house tasks…these are the things that fill my time. Sitting in prayer or reflection can quickly turn into a moment of planning. I have obligations to fulfill and I feel like I need to fulfill them well.
This goes for the practical…
“I am going to read two hundred pages tonight.”
“I need to put in one hour a night studying for this exam between now …

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 am back in New York for the first time after having lived here for three years. I forgot what this place is like, and that it took me a year-and-a-half to get used to living here the first time. As it is now, I sometimes wish that I had never left it. Something about this place, the proximity of humanity with all of its triumphs and failures, it reminds me of the importance of who it is that Love is calling me to be.

2012.
Have you heard the bad news?
The world is going to end.
Yes. I know, I know: another 2012 joke.
Its overdone, used too much,
and while we used to laugh,
it is a little bit canned by this point.
But its true, you know.
The world is going to end.
Maybe not this year, but it will.
Your world is going to end.