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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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Stillpoint retreat Sept. 10-12 open for registration

February 23, 2021 • retreats

Registration is now open for the third-annual Stillpoint retreat at Pyramid Life Center to be held Friday, Sept. 10, through Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Spots ...

Cravings Tribe: Transition week has arrived

February 15, 2021 • Cravings Tribe

We started out on this revolution-not-resolution journey of inner transformation at the beginning of the new year. The plan was to bring some new habits into ...

Lent: Are you willing to be surprised by God?

February 9, 2021 • Life Lines

Flannery O’Connor, the American Catholic southern gothic writer, once said, “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” That line ...

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Humility, humiliation, and quiet surrender

July 8, 2016 • Life in My 50s, spirituality

Humility has never been my strong suit, which seems somewhat odd to me because I’m not a bragger or a diva. In fact, I trend toward the low end of the ...

Clearing out clutter: sometimes a sock is just a sock

July 3, 2016 • Life Lines

Back when Olivia was in preschool, she went through a brief period of hoarding. I’m not talking about holding on to too many favorite toys; I’m talking about ...

Entertaining angels unaware

April 14, 2016 • Life Lines

My latest Life Lines column, running in the current issue of Catholic New York: I’m not a big believer in coincidence. Rather, I see those unlikely moments ...

He is risen. Alleluia. Alleluia

March 27, 2016 • Lent

Life begins again today. Even without dying, we feel reborn because we have been given the ultimate second chance. Without earning it, without understanding ...

Spreading Good News with a small and capital “g”

March 19, 2016 • writing

I was featured as a Faces of Faith interview by Rob Brill in today's Albany Times Union. I'm honored. Here's the story: MARY DeTURRIS POUST Background: ...

Defying definitions and trusting your own story

March 6, 2016 • family, Life in My 50s

Everyone has his or her own story. Our history, family, faith, environment – all of it combines to create a background story that runs through our entire ...

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