There is a quote from Pedro Arrupe, a Jesuit, that I read periodically and find simultaneously inspiring and challenging: "Nothing is...

It's been a long spring/winter in Michigan this year. We had snow all the way through April, and even into the first week of May! But...

Shells are most beautiful when they're empty. I know that the creatures that live inside the shells are precious to their Creator, but...

Many of us don't know just how good our bodies are, or how necessary it is to pay attention to our bodies when we're trying to make...

Why Don't We Reflect More Often? Chances are, the reason you don't engage in more rhythms of reflection and intention is because you...

Do you ever feel like you're wandering in your life with God? Maybe you know you "should" be praying or reading the Bible or having some...

I am, by nature, a challenger. My motto, for much of my life, was pretty close to, "Where there's a will, there's a way." But as I'm...

Why Don't We Ask?

"Have you ever had that looked at by a dermatologist?" The question a makeup artist asked, with genuine compassion, regarding a...

So far, in this series, I've told a story of integrating my past into my present by meeting Jesus as God With Me in my daily moments,...

In the last two posts, I've been focusing on different approaches to integrating our past with our present. I told my own story of...

In the last post, I told my process of learning to trust in the presence of Jesus in the present and how that led to seeing him in the...

One of the hardest seasons of my parenting life was when my husband, Geoff, was working on his PhD. We were living in the Chicago area,...

For the past few days, we've been unpacking how our nervous systems were shaped in relationships and how it's possible to be transformed...

Yesterday, we ended with the struggle of implicit memory telling us what is safe and what is dangerous and the way that is physically...

This is the 3rd post in a series about why we have to pay attention to our bodies in order to make any significant or lasting change....

This is the 2nd post in a series explaining why we have to pay attention to our bodies in order to make any lasting changes of any kind -...