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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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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…
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Anywhere But Here: Finding God in the Mundane (Lectio Divina)
In the mundane routines of daily life — the dishes, the laundry, the difficult conversation — God is not absent but present, nearer to us than we are to ourselves. Drawing on the Scotist vision of a God who creates out of love in order to love, this reflection invites us to stop waiting…
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It’s Not Fair: On Grievance, the Cross, and the Debt We Could Not Pay (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Thérèse of Lisieux, the parable of the unforgiving servant, and the theology of kenosis, this Holy Week Lectio Divina reflects on the spiritual danger of nursing grievances — and on the cross as the horizon that recontextualizes everything we think we are owed.