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No Need To Grow: Thérèse of Lisieux and the Little Way of Being Lifted (Lectio Divina)
There are moments when “thank you” is the only prayer left, and even that feels too small and too much at once. Thérèse of Lisieux went looking in Scripture for a way to Heaven she was too small to climb, and what she found asked something of her that most of us spend our…
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Even a Pin Picked Up in Love: Thérèse of Lisieux and the Little Way of Sabbath (Lectio Divina)
What if the smallest thing you do today — a pin lifted from the floor, a quiet hour handed over — carries more weight than the great things you keep waiting to do? Thérèse of Lisieux hints at a strange arithmetic of love, and this reflection sits with the Sabbath we keep so imperfectly,…
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Altar of Insomnia: The Transformative Power of Grace (Lectio Divina)
Robert Van Valkenburgh traces the arc from childhood hyper-vigilance to a 4 a.m. moment of insomnia — where the altar of self-made atonement becomes, by grace, the place of surrender. Drawing on St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s bold declaration that she fears only one thing — keeping her own will — this Lectio Divina asks…
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I Do: On Loving God With Everything You Cannot Give (Lectio Divina)
What does it mean to love God when your very capacity to love him is a gift he gave you? In this Lectio Divina reflection, Robert Van Valkenburgh draws on Thérèse of Lisieux’s Act of Oblation to Merciful Love — her prayer that the waves of infinite tenderness shut up within God might overflow…
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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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Surrender and Gratitude: What Jesus Really Asks of Us (Lectio Divina)
Discover St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s wisdom on surrender and gratitude. Jesus doesn’t demand heroic acts but invites us into simple trust and thankful hearts, echoing Mary’s faithful yes and Scripture’s call to rest in grace.