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Discovering the Divine in the Everyday

The gift of centering prayer: finding unity through silence

July 7, 2025 • Silence

This Soul Seeing essay originally ran in the July 5, 2025, issue of the National Catholic Reporter: As I drove down the New York State Thruway, headed toward what promised to be an inspiring event on the legacy of Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating and the ...

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Catching up to the curve of our own transformation

August 24, 2023 • Life Lines

The poet David Whyte says that most people are “living four or five years behind the curve of their own transformation,” refusing to accept a new season of ...

Be Here Now Retreat

July 28, 2023 • retreats

Early bird pricing for this weekend retreat expires on July 29. So if you're thinking about joining me at the beautiful Bon Secours Retreat & Conference ...

Adding leaven to our prayer

July 23, 2023 • Give Us This Day

My Give Us This Day reflection on today’s Scripture readings. You can find the readings HERE. A friend and I were discussing the problem of letting our ...

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Confessions of a rosary convert

July 1, 2021 • Life Lines

Rosary-challenged. That’s how I’ve described myself for most of my life. Don’t get me wrong. I have more sets of rosary beads than I can count, tucked away ...

The journey is the goal

June 5, 2021 • Life Lines

Last week I was working out in a corner of our backyard where I decided to create a meditation garden. The area, which had once been home to a swing set, had ...

The rules we live by

May 18, 2021 • Life Lines

As we round the corner on pandemic and see a faint light at the end of our long Covid tunnel, I’ve found myself stuck—physically, due to some minor injuries ...

Life Lines podcast: grief and grace

April 11, 2021 • grief

After a few months MIA, the Line Lines podcast is back. On the eve of the 33rd anniversary of my mother's death, I'm talking about grief and grace, sorrow ...

Responding with heart means jumping in with trust

April 9, 2021 • Give Us This Day

I love how Peter tends to respond to Jesus with such pure emotion. As in today’s scene, when he leaps out of his boat and races through the water toward ...

Getting past the ‘veil’ of judgment

April 9, 2021 • Life Lines

One of the great joys—and occasional challenges—of being a writer is getting letters from readers via email, social media and even snail mail. Those messages ...

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