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Every Hour A Prayer: Evagrius Ponticus and Our Lives as a Response to God’s Love (Lectio Divina)
What does it actually cost to pray without distraction? Evagrius Ponticus doesn’t offer a technique — he names denial, suffering, and every waking hour as the material prayer is made of. This reflection sits with what it means when prayer stops being a portion of your day and starts asking for all of it.
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Given Who, Not Why: Job, Christ, and the One Question Worth Asking (Lectio Divina)
There is a question most of us carry without naming it: why. Why the silence, why the suffering, why a God whose ways remain just out of reach. This reflection sits inside the book of Job, where that very question is met not with an answer but with an overwhelming presence — and follows…
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Hollowed Out by Love: Suffering as Purification (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on the haunting image of Abba Arsenius — whose tears wore a hollow in his chest over a lifetime of weeping — this Lectio Divina reflection traces the movement from suffering to purification, from emptiness to union. Our longing for God will cause us pain as we grieve for all that is not-God.…
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We Know Not Where But With And To Whom (Lectio Divina)
What does it mean to follow Christ when we do not know where he is leading us? Drawing on Thomas à Kempis’s invitation to follow the Way, the Truth, and the Life, this Lectio Divina sits with the paradox at the heart of Christian discipleship: we do not know where Christ takes us, but…
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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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Not the Final Word: On Suffering, Brokenness, and Grace (Lectio Divina)
Some days — some weeks, months, and years — we are going to be beaten down by the world’s brokenness. Suffering is real, brokenness is real, and the pain we carry can feel like our ultimate reality. And yet, in silence and stillness, something more real than our suffering is revealed. Drawing on St.…
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God Doesn’t Change Our Circumstances. He Changes Our Hearts. (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on John of the Cross’s counsel to live as though only God and yourself were in this world, this Lectio Divina explores why God does not change our circumstances — but changes our hearts. Through the cross, the cry of Gethsemane, and the kenotic pattern of Christ’s self-surrender, this reflection invites us into…
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The Tapestry of Life: Finding Joy Through Suffering With St. John of the Cross (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Fr. Daniel Chowning’s reflection on St. John of the Cross, this Lectio Divina explores how joy does not mean the absence of suffering — but is woven through it. Through the Scotist lens of a God who willed us for love from the beginning, this post meditates on how the full tapestry…
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Bathe in the Ocean of Matter: On Embodiment, Suffering, and the God Who Is Always Becoming (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Teilhard de Chardin’s image of the ocean of matter, this Lectio Divina explores what it means to live fully as embodied beings — diving into experience rather than withdrawing from it, and trusting that the God who is always becoming sustains us through suffering with a peace that depends on nothing, even…
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Where Light Enters: The Wounds of Christ and the Wounds We Carry (Lectio Divina)
When Jesus rose from the grave, he rose wounded. Drawing on Cecilia González-Andrieu and the Beatitudes, this Lectio Divina explores how our suffering connects us to the wounded, risen Christ — and how grace enters the world through the very places we are broken open.