
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…

Have you ever been called toward something — only to be redirected, then found again exactly where you least expected? In this Lectio Divina reflection, Robert Van Valkenburgh follows one such movement of grace: drawn to Julian of Norwich, detoured through St. Francis de Sales, and then surprised by Julian’s words arriving through a…