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Lenten Read-Along: Where Do We Begin with Forgiveness?

Forgiveness can be complicated. I can think of times in my life when I wanted to forgive, but I felt “stuck” in something that...

Experiencing God’s Love

This post is based on Week One of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. I found myself in a desperate situation just over ten years ago. During...

It Matters to Jesus

A friend called me the other day, and as soon as I answered the phone, she said through tears, “Becky, I had a huge...

The Ashes We Receive

My preparation for Ash Wednesday most years begins with clearing my calendar for that day. I look at the list of people I accompany...

What’s the Real Problem I Am Trying to Solve?

One of my most challenging classes freshman year in college was physics. I remember going through class after class being completely perplexed as the...

Staring Our Way to Recognition

Have you ever seen something that you could not identify as anything familiar, and so all you could do was stare at it in...

Writing Spiritual Autobiography as It Relates to the Spiritual Exercises, Part 2

In terms of the Spiritual Exercises, one critical goal of writing a spiritual autobiography is to recognize God’s action in our past: God’s presence,...

Resumé and Eulogy Virtues

Last month, I attended an online funeral held for William Barry, SJ, a well-known Jesuit spiritual director and author who recently went home to...

Perspective

Every year for the past few years, I have chosen a word of the year. I do not have an elaborate process for choosing...

Writing Spiritual Autobiography as It Relates to the Spiritual Exercises, Part 1

St. Ignatius understood the importance of reviewing one’s life when he built this practice into the Spiritual Exercises centuries ago. His emphasis was to...

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