Reflections
Three Ingredients in a Recipe for Gratitude
So many times a day we say “thank you” out of nothing more than common courtesy at best or, at worst, out of habit, with no realization that we...
Reflections
Invitations from God
There is a brilliant scene in the first Harry Potter book in which ten-year-old Harry receives a letter in the mail that his Uncle Vernon refuses to let him...
Reflections
God Is Outside the Box
Do you ever imagine that your life is settled into nice, neat boxes? Here is my work box. Here is my family box. Here is my volunteer box. Here...
Ignatian Voices
The People for Others That Inspire Me
In 1973, Pedro Arrupe, SJ, changed my life. (I was four years old at the time, toddling around a backyard on the other side of the ocean.) In what...
Ignatian Prayer
Prayer Brings God into the Messy Rooms
When my son was in third grade, he was asked, “What would you do if you had an hour with Jesus?”
Depicted with smiling stick figures of himself and Jesus,...
Social Justice
Dude, You Can’t Fail!
My e-mail inbox is peppered with requests from Jesuit advocates on a variety of issues, often asking for me to take action. Ignatian spirituality promotes “faith that does justice.”...