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Discovering the Divine in the Everyday

New Advent-Christmas reflection book

September 13, 2025 • Advent

My latest (and seventh) book of seasonal Scripture reflections — Waiting in Joyful Hope: Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2025-2026 — has recently been released by Liturgical Press. Here are the opening paragraphs of my introduction to this new ...

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On life’s journey, you may be entertaining angels unaware

March 9, 2024 • writing

This Soul Seeing column appeared in the March 9 issue of the National Catholic Reporter: Air travel is not for the faint of heart. Although I don't have ...

Heart Health: Trust Your Gut (podcast)

February 18, 2024 • podcasts

In honor of Heart Health Month, I'm sharing my own heart health scare as a cautionary tale. I am so grateful I am here to tell my story. Trust your intuition ...

Listening with the ear of our heart this Lent

February 16, 2024 • Life Lines

Each year, as Lent begins, I can’t help but remember a scene from Sunday Mass a few years back. A little boy sitting in the second pew with his grandmother ...

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Where is the beauty in your world?

June 15, 2022 • Everyday Divine

As I was sipping coffee on the deck this morning, phone in hand, crossword puzzle in front of me, I suddenly stopped and looked up. In that moment, ...

A trade-off worth making

June 2, 2022 • Life Lines

When I left my office job four months ago to return to my home-based writing and retreat business, I was mainly focused on doing the work I love most on a ...

Is happiness a choice? Let’s talk about mental health

May 9, 2022 • podcasts

My latest Life Lines column, From Darkness into Light, has brought in a flurry of emails and comments from readers. It seems this topic really struck a ...

Moving from darkness into light

May 4, 2022 • Life Lines

I recently did a search of my past Life Lines columns to find something I wrote here six years ago: “Sometimes happiness isn’t a choice.” I remembered how ...

Multitasking is not a virtue: new podcast episode

April 25, 2022 • podcasts

We live in a world where we are expected to do two things at once, or ten things at once. Multitasking is seen as a virtue, something that means we are ...

Transformation by storm

April 6, 2022 • Life Lines

We are nearing the end of our 40-day pilgrimage through Lent, but the truth is that we are on a pilgrimage that never ends. Our entire spiritual life is ...

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