Jesus said “Let not your hearts be troubled!” My heart is troubled by the polarization of “either/or” thinking. So I ask was Jesus and “either/or” thinker? Or was he a “both/and thinker?
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Challenges of Change
A thread stitches almost all these posts together. Change! They all focused on something that called for a change. We are all on a journey of change together.
Elizabeth Seton and Our Ordinary Epiphanies
Regina Bechtle connected the dots for me between Elizabeth Ann Seton, the feast of the Epiphany, and our “ordinary epiphanies”. She found her God precisely in the most ordinary of moments.
“Pay it Forward” and Divine Mercy Sunday
“Pay it Forward” and Divine Mercy Many may remember a movie in 2000 called “Pay It Forward.” The lead line in the movie was, “When someone does you a good deed, don’t pay it back, pay it forward.” In Ryan Hyde’s movie it is described as an obligation to do three good...
Lent and the Tension of Being Bridges to Belonging
For Vincentians heeding the call to conversion translates into being servants of hospitality and communion and belonging … and the inevitability of the tension of holding on to truths that seem to conflict.