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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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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…