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Before We Cry Out: Julian of Norwich and the Prayer God Prays in Us (Lectio Divina)
What if the prayer you’ve been struggling to find words for was already being prayed before you knew how to ask? Julian of Norwich names a goodness that does not wait for the right words, the right posture, or even the right understanding of what is happening — it comes down to meet us…
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The Mother of Spiritual Consent: Mary’s Yes and the Room It Makes for God (Lectio Divina)
Julian of Norwich saw something in Mary’s “yes” that most of us miss — that her smallness was never an obstacle to grace, but the very room grace needed. This reflection sits with that seeing, and with the no we keep offering instead, the one Mary’s whole life seemed to answer. What would it…
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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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Not a Stranger on the Road: Julian of Norwich and the Love That Raises Us (Lectio Divina)
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…