All Souls’ Day snuck up on me this year, and I hadn’t given it much thought except to plan a short prayer experience for some students. We shared memories, read Scripture, and took the last 20 minutes or so for creative expression of whatever was on our hearts and minds. I sat on the floorContinue reading >>
Sacramentality, part 1
I can’t remember the first time I heard the Jesuit catchphrase “Finding God in All Things”, but I am pretty sure it was during or after college. I’m not sure anyone in my house growing up would have known a Jesuit from a jelly sandwich; I stumbled into Jesuit education (as an experience and laterContinue reading >>
That marriage might make me holy
About four years ago I started to crack up. This isn’t that unusual for me, as I find myself “grieving over Goldengrove unleaving” during October, but that year was different. And I could be excused for the number of tears I shed, since I was struggling with a soon-to-be-diagnoses chronic illness, and was settling intoContinue reading >>
When the world was big
The year before our wedding saw two international trips, a new home (and two moves into it), three hospitalizations, two surgeries, and one new job. So I hope it is understandable that we had not desire to prepare an elaborate adventure just after four wedding, preferring to find a cottage on a beach at someContinue reading >>
Why we ruined our wedding pictures
“Honey,” I said a few months before the wedding, “everyone says that we should make lists of our priorities for the wedding so that we know what the each other’s non-negotiables are.” There had been no disagreements thusfar, and we were committed to a simple celebration without most of the bells and whistles that haveContinue reading >>
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