Although the last decade of my life has been overflowing with goodness, joy is not a word I would immediately choose if asked to describe...

“Choose joy!” ...

I have deleted and restarted this blog 5 different times now. Why? Because, while I love creating the perfect schedule for spiritual...

Have you ever started a spiritual discipline and it didn't go quite as planned?  ...

When some people hear the word confession, they think of a staid Catholic priest on the other side of a confessional booth wall. When I...

I don’t like to fast. I just do not like to deprive myself. Also, I’m lazy. I get distracted, and it makes me cranky! Is fasting really...

What If. ...

Life tends to be one transition on the heels of another. Some transitions are easy, light, and hardly noticed as they fold into our current...

I always knew my heart was desperate for love, but I didn’t know how deeply, until I was gasping through a panic attack at the mere...

My friends had just finished wrestling three young kids into bed (extra difficult with a special visitor in the house). They joined me in...