Weekly Reflections

Background Music: Life, Love and Prayer “I live and you will live,” Jesus tells his disciples. You and I are both alive right now, so this seems easy to wrap [...]

Spiritual and Religious The question is often asked why you need religion at all. Can't you just be a spiritual person and go directly to God? Especially in the wake [...]

Diligent Faith Around this time five years ago, our first granddaughter was baptized. Public gatherings were troublesome in pandemic days. Events that should have brought great rejoicing were muted by [...]

A Well of Mercy How I wish I could be Thomas at the moment when Jesus says, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and [...]

A Week to Feel His Profound Love Today’s Gospel reading reveals the depths of divine love through Jesus’ suffering and sacrifice. This passage is enormously long! As we stand to [...]

Jesus’ Timing Jesus loved Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, so He waited. This is such a difficult passage to swallow. Like Martha, who cries to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been [...]

Look Into The Heart “Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the LORD looks into the heart." Have you ever read this and wondered, [...]

Ripple Effects of Encountering Christ Every nuance of the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman reveals His merciful, loving, and compassionate heart. It begins with the place He chooses [...]

Faith and Action During this season of Lent, I think one of the images that comes up frequently is a desert. We perhaps think about Jesus fasting for 40 days [...]