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Not Perfect, Not Okay, But Loved: On God’s Unconditional Love and the Gift We Cannot Earn (Lectio Divina)
When we have exhausted ourselves in the wilderness of self-will, we discover what was always true: God’s love was never withheld. Drawing on Fr. Mike Schmitz’s simple confession — “I’m not perfect. I’m not okay. But I am loved.” — this Lectio Divina reflects on the unconditional love that meets us in our imperfection,…
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Cherished Emptiness: Creating a Sabbath in Your Heart With Macrina Wiederkehr (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Macrina Wiederkehr’s insight that cherished emptiness gives God space in which to work, this Lectio Divina explores what it means to create a Sabbath in the heart — not as mere absence, but as a receptive stillness in which God alone may speak. A meditation on silence, surrender, and our God-shaped capacity…
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The Tapestry of Life: Finding Joy Through Suffering With St. John of the Cross (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Fr. Daniel Chowning’s reflection on St. John of the Cross, this Lectio Divina explores how joy does not mean the absence of suffering — but is woven through it. Through the Scotist lens of a God who willed us for love from the beginning, this post meditates on how the full tapestry…
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Awakened by Love: Christ’s Yes, Our Yes, and the Sleep We Leave Behind (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Thomas Keating’s image of waking from sleep, this Lectio Divina reflects on Christ as the perfect and unwavering yes to the Father — and on how, through Christ joining himself to us, his yes becomes our own. A meditation on spiritual slumber, the dubious comfort of darkness, and the love that gently…
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Letting Go of Worry: Throwing Ourselves into the Ocean of God’s Goodness (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on St. Paul of the Cross’s invitation to throw ourselves into the ocean of God’s goodness, this Lectio Divina explores Jesus’s call to release anxiety and trust in grace — one step at a time — into the boundless light of love that was always waiting for us.
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She Changeth Her Working, But Not Her Love: Healing in the Broken and Ordinary (Lectio Divina)
A Lectio Divina reflection on healing through brokenness — drawn from a burnt sandwich and a crumbled piece of carrot cake on a daughter’s birthday. Anchored in Julian of Norwich’s vision of a love that changes its working but never its love, this post traces the unexpected grace that arrives in our most ordinary…
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An Open Invitation To God’s Banquet (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Richard Rohr’s image of Christianity as a wedding banquet rather than a judicial court, this Lectio Divina reflects on God’s original intention of inclusion — and on how it is we, not God, who exile ourselves from the table that has always been set for us.
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Peace Be With You, Wounds and All (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Bishop Robert Barron’s reflection on the wounds and Shalom of the risen Christ, this Lectio Divina explores how new life proceeds not from healing but from forgiveness — and how we are called to walk into the world wounded and glorified, offering peace to all, especially to those who gave us our…
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A Life Dedicated to the Lord: Sabbath, Surrender, and the Little Way (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Thérèse of Lisieux’s insight that God asks only for surrender and gratitude, this Lectio Divina explores what it means to practice Sabbath not as a single day but as a disposition of the whole life — a perpetual yes to God’s love, learned slowly, in faith and through grace.
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Where Does A Tree Start And End: God’s Eternal Love As The Ground Of Existence (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Heidi Russell’s Rahnerian Christology, this Lectio Divina traces the cosmic arc of God’s self-communication — from the eternal intention to take on flesh, through the incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth, to the crucifixion we repeat whenever we fail to see the sacred ground of our shared existence. Beginning with a meditation on…