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We Know Not Where But With And To Whom (Lectio Divina)
What does it mean to follow Christ when we do not know where he is leading us? Drawing on Thomas à Kempis’s invitation to follow the Way, the Truth, and the Life, this Lectio Divina sits with the paradox at the heart of Christian discipleship: we do not know where Christ takes us, but…
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More Than We Can Handle: On Grace, the Cross, and the God Who Never Turns Away (Lectio Divina)
We are often told that God will not give us more than we can handle — but this is only partly true. In fact, God often gives us exactly more than we can handle: tests we cannot pass, crosses we cannot bear, laws we cannot follow on our own strength. And this is the…
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The First Word Was Love: A Prayer of Consent to the Love That Is All in All (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of Love as the agent of universal synthesis, this Lectio Divina meditates on Love as the first and last Word — before all things, within all things, and as all in all. A reflection on the cosmic and intimate dimensions of divine Love, culminating in a prayer of…
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What Seemed a Fragile Thread: On Grace, Awakening, and the Love That Will Not Let Us Go (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Ruth Burrows’s vision of God as the consuming desire of the heart, this Lectio Divina reflects on the invisible thread of grace that connects us to God — a connection we cannot break, though we may forget, deny, betray, doubt, or flee from it. From Adam and Eve to the disciples in…
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What the Flesh Cannot Hold: On Felt Absence and the Love That Remains (Lectio Divina)
When God feels absent, it is not because God has withdrawn — it is because the finite flesh cannot always bear the weight of infinite love. Drawing on the cry of dereliction, the agony in Gethsemane, and the Pauline vision of a life hidden in God, this Lectio Divina explores why felt separation is…
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The School of Divine Love: Consent, Centering Prayer, and Mary’s Humble Yes (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Thomas Keating’s vision of prayer as a school of divine love, this Lectio Divina explores consent as the heart of the contemplative life — tracing Mary’s humble yes through the practice of centering prayer and into our own daily surrender to God’s quiet, knocking presence.
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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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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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The Hidden Well: Finding God’s Peace in Stillness (A Lectio Divina)
Drawing on John Henry Newman’s image of a hidden well — shaded, silent, and unknown to the world — this post explores the deep interior peace that Love offers to a weary and broken heart. Through sensory presence and quiet surrender, it traces the contemplative movement from restlessness to repose, and from homecoming to…
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When Grace Comes Calling: The Gift We Cannot Earn or Control (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Martin Luther’s insight that God always takes the first step, this piece explores the nature of grace as pure gift — something we can neither earn nor summon, only receive. It traces the full arc of prevenient grace, from our powerlessness over it to the quiet surrender that allows it to work,…