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Job and Desolation

Tim Muldoon

Job, we are told, was a righteous man, graced by God with all manner of blessing. But when Satan struck a wager with God...

No Guarantees

Shemaiah Gonzalez

Each week, my junior high-school math teacher had us write a note to ourselves at the top of our class notebooks. Dear Me, Lord willing, Test on...

Spiritual Family Heirlooms

Melinda LeBlanc

My mother-in-law passed away several months ago, and now my husband and his siblings are going through the arduous task of sorting through her...

Unshakeable Hope

Loretta Pehanich

We all know people like the princess who couldn’t sleep because of a pea under her many mattresses. Mary Abrahamsohn was the opposite of...

Dance with Me

Lisa Kelly

I had been watching too many of those romantic European period pieces, the ones where the ball is the make-or-break moment of the whole...

Humility and Thirst for Christ

Marina Berzins McCoy

This past summer, my area experienced a long drought. On my summer retreat, the usually lush grass was parched, the lilacs looked wilted, and...

Grounded and Joyful

dotMagis Editor

Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ, remembers a 100-year-old friend who “was grounded in a religious tradition and intentional about celebration. She was joyful.” Fr. Rossmann is...

Minding the Moss: An Invitation to Selflessness

Eric Clayton

We learned quickly not to step on the moss. On the flight to Iceland, one video after another cautioned against committing such a heinous act....

When God Sings Through Your Life

Vinita Hampton Wright

Try to imagine God singing through your soul. God is expressing love, wisdom, beauty, and truth through your specific life. What would God's vocabulary be?...