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Immeasurable Love: Bernard of Clairvaux and Why God Asks for Your Whole Heart (Lectio Divina)
What if the love God asks of you was never meant to be repaid, but received? Bernard of Clairvaux insists the only reason to love God is God Himself — no calculation, no ledger, no way to ever make it even — and this reflection sits with what it costs to stop trying.
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Given Who, Not Why: Job, Christ, and the One Question Worth Asking (Lectio Divina)
There is a question most of us carry without naming it: why. Why the silence, why the suffering, why a God whose ways remain just out of reach. This reflection sits inside the book of Job, where that very question is met not with an answer but with an overwhelming presence — and follows…
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What We Love We Shall Grow to Resemble: On Love, Forgiveness, and the Soul’s Formation (Lectio Divina)
What we love, we shall grow to resemble. Drawing on Bernard of Clairvaux, the Dhammapada, the Sermon on the Mount, and Paul’s letter to the Romans, this Lectio Divina meditation traces the quiet logic of the soul’s formation through its own outpouring. It is not what is done to us that damages the soul,…