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The Gentleness of God: Receiving The Love That Makes Love Possible (Lectio Divina)
A Sunday Lectio Divina on gentleness, Sabbath rest, and the grace of self-love. Drawing on Thomas Merton’s discovery that deep solitude opens us to a gentleness we can then offer others, this reflection explores how loving our neighbors as ourselves requires first allowing God’s gentle Spirit to work within us. Sabbath becomes the practice…
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Our Life Is Our Prayer Life: On Spiritual Growth, Daily Chores, and the God We Meet in One Another (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Patrick Hart’s foreword to James Finley’s Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, this Lectio Divina explores how our truest spiritual growth is revealed not in our devotional practices but in our everyday relationships and ordinary circumstances. From Teresa of Avila’s pots and pans to Brother Lawrence’s practice of the presence, from Paul’s call to…
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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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What Are You Going Through? (Lectio Divia)
What does Jesus’s question to blind Bartimaeus — “What do you want me to do for you?” — reveal about how we are called to love one another? This piece meditates on the story of Bartimaeus as both a path to healing through faith and a living demonstration of the second great commandment, drawing…
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Already Loved: How God’s Infinite Love Calls Us to Love in Return (Lectio Divina)
What are we supposed to do with lives already held in God’s infinite love? Drawing on the contemplative wisdom of Jeanne Guyon, Thomas Merton, James Finley, and Henri Nouwen, this reflection explores the great commandment — to love God and neighbor — not as a means of earning grace, but as our free and…
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We Are One: Remembering Our Unity in Christ Through Nonviolence (Lectio Divina)
Violence is what happens when we forget who we are. Drawing on Thomas Merton’s vision of nonviolence and the Christian mystical tradition, this post traces the deep truth that we are all formed from the same dust, animated by the same breath, and held together in the body of Christ — and that remembering…
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Lectio Divina: Like You Love
This Lectio Divina invites us to reflect on Jesus’ call to love others as we love ourselves, highlighting the profound truth that self-hatred inevitably spills into our relationships. Sister Miriam Heidland’s words remind us that authentic charity begins with receiving God’s love for us—allowing it to transform how we see our own worth. When…