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Bathe in the Ocean of Matter: On Embodiment, Suffering, and the God Who Is Always Becoming (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Teilhard de Chardin’s image of the ocean of matter, this Lectio Divina explores what it means to live fully as embodied beings — diving into experience rather than withdrawing from it, and trusting that the God who is always becoming sustains us through suffering with a peace that depends on nothing, even…
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Waiting for You Who Never Left: On Longing, Absence, and God’s Unceasing Love (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Karl Rahner’s image of the Silent Infinite, this Lectio Divina explores the ache of divine absence — the longing we feel when God seems far away, and the faith that sustains us through it. A meditation on the paradox at the heart of the contemplative life: that the love we feel is…
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Our Ways Lead to Death. Christ Carries Us to Life. (Lectio Divina)
Our vision of justice, perfection, and eternity will always fall short of what God has prepared. Drawing on Ted Peters and the Pauline tradition, this Lectio Divina post meditates on how Christ — crucified and risen, dwelling within us — carries us beyond our broken understanding into the life, love, and eternity only God…
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The Ground of Creativity: Sabbath Rest and the God Who Rests With Us (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Steve Macchia and the Sabbath theology of Genesis, this Lectio Divina explores the relationship between creativity and rest — and invites us to discover that rest is not a pause from our creative lives, but the very ground from which all true creativity flows.
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Breadcrumbs of Truth: Following God’s Voice Into the Eternal Unknown (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Karen Kilby’s introduction to Karl Rahner, this Lectio Divina follows the image of divine breadcrumbs — the fleeting glimpses of truth God leaves before us and within us — as a meditation on how God speaks from all directions, calling us deeper into relationship, in spite of ourselves, and without ever stopping.
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God Does Not Condemn Us: On Love, Hell, and the Choice We Make (Lectio Divina)
What if God never condemns us — and hell is simply the life we choose when we refuse love? Drawing on Catherine of Siena and the kenotic theology of the cross, this Lectio Divina explores how our exile from God is always self-chosen, and how divine love, eternally poured out, never stops calling us…
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There Is No Wall: How Jesus Teaches Us to Love Our Neighbor As Ourselves (Lectio Divina)
Jesus didn’t just preach love of neighbor — he enacted it, again and again, across every wall his world considered sacred: ethnic, political, moral, and religious. This reflection traces those enacted moments, from the Samaritan woman at the well to the woman nearly stoned to death, and then turns the lens back on us…
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He Loved Us First: God’s Prevenient Love and the Welcome That Never Ends (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Teresa of Avila and James Finley, this Lectio Divina explores God’s love as radically prior — the ground of all prayer, all longing, and all return. Our prayers are not initiations but responses to a Love that has been calling us home since before we knew we were lost.
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Where Light Enters: The Wounds of Christ and the Wounds We Carry (Lectio Divina)
When Jesus rose from the grave, he rose wounded. Drawing on Cecilia González-Andrieu and the Beatitudes, this Lectio Divina explores how our suffering connects us to the wounded, risen Christ — and how grace enters the world through the very places we are broken open.
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The Gift of Wonder: Letting Go of Certainty and Resting in Mystery (Lectio Divina)
We spend so much of our lives grasping for certainty — as if knowing enough could protect us from pain, loss, or the sheer vastness of what we cannot control. But what if the part of us that demands to know is not the deepest part of us at all? Drawing on Serene Jones,…