The One Who Sees
It’s been a long stretch of loneliness. / Life is a rougher texture / than I thought it would be, / full of disappointments, humblings
desert
Saint Mary of Egypt: A Modern Verse Life
Introducing Mary of Egypt, a saint whose life started in wild immorality, but who was aided in her conversion by the Virgin Mary, attended to by a lion and a monk, and lived an ascetic life in the desert. Bonnie B. Thurston brings her to us in prose and verse.
Full of Days
How may I come into old age ‘full of days,’ the Biblical description given to those who reach the end of life fulfilled and ripe with wisdom?
Zoom Isn’t the (Only) Answer
We should not fool ourselves: we’re in this coronavirus thing for the long haul, and digital tools like Zoom won’t save us.
God’s Lap
"The folds / of your garment swaddle every / living thing in your embrace."
The Midwest Winter as Spiritual Desert
In the midst of the hardest months of winter, ones marked with grief and emptiness, how can we trust that God is with us?
The Wilderness
If Lent is a time for us to imitate Jesus’ forty days in the desert, it should be less about suffering and more about growing in wonder and vulnerability.
