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Discovering the Divine in the Everyday

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 a fear of flying, I do have a fear of pretty much everything else involved: getting through ...

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Becoming a participant in your own life

November 3, 2021 • Life Lines

It’s amazing how we can convince ourselves that we simply don’t have the time to do even the little things that might make our lives demonstrably better. We ...

Restore, Renew, Resolve to Evolve

October 31, 2021 • meditation

Over the next few months, I'll be leading events at Jai Yoga School designed to help you restore some sanity to your life (especially during the upcoming ...

Be still: surrender over striving

October 6, 2021 • Life Lines

When I signed onto Facebook this week, I found a private message from someone who told me that a Life Lines column I had written about surrender eight years ...

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The art of life, and the life of art

June 11, 2017 • Life Lines

When I was young, I bought into the notion that I was not good at art, that we were not good at art, as if it were possible to classify an entire gene pool ...

Take a weekend to nourish body, mind, and spirit

June 6, 2017 • Cravings, retreats

I'm guessing you could use a few days of peace and quiet, maybe in a gorgeous spot, where you have nothing to do but stare out a lake and let someone else do ...

Alleluia, Alleluia. He is risen: Knowing with our hearts what our heads can’t comprehend

April 16, 2017 • Give Us This Day

“For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.” I take such comfort in these closing words of today’s Gospel. Because even ...

Finding grace, even in the shadow of the cross

April 14, 2017 • Lent

I’ve been in desperate need of some grace these days. So much so, that I pulled a tarnished silver necklace bearing the word “GRACE” out of my jewelry box ...

Finding the blessing in a toilet in need of scrubbing

April 2, 2017 • Everyday Divine

Most weekends I don't look forward to the long list of things that need to get done. After a busy week at work and nights spent driving to and from ...

‘Shining like the sun’: Merton goes to the prom

March 5, 2017 • Life in My 50s

I was standing in the dressing room of Lord & Taylor recently, waiting outside a closed stall door as Olivia tried on dress after dress in the elusive ...

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