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The Gift of Patience: Waiting In God’s Presence (Lectio Divina)
Most of us know what it feels like to wait without knowing what we are waiting for — or how long it will last. Sabbath names that experience and reframes it: not as absence, but as the very place where God’s love is most fully given. This reflection moves through the great biblical figures…
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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 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.