Healing Is Here, and Ahead
Maureen O'Brien
November 26, 2025
What aspects of your past might you be ready to let go of, for greater freedom and light?
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Maureen O'Brien
Maureen O'Brien's award-winning short stories and poems have been published widely in magazines and anthologies. She lives in Connecticut, where taught creative writing to teenagers for 25 years. She holds an MA in creative writing and a BA in philosophy and religion. She is the author of What Was Lost: Seeking Refuge in the Psalms and Gather the Fragments: My Year of Finding God’s Love (Franciscan Media).
God, Change Me
Maureen O'Brien
October 30, 2025
Reflect Meditate today on this sentence, “God, don’t change my circumstances, change me.” Pray God, instead of asking youto change the outer world,today I simply
The Sacrament of Now
Maureen O'Brien
October 10, 2025
Can we trust that we are always being led? Think of times you have been led to God by inspiring words, passages, or books that have touched you.
Stillness and Bells
Maureen O'Brien
October 3, 2025
Legend has it that, in 1226, the bells of St. Stephen in Assisi began to clang spontaneously as Francis took his final breath.
Love Abounds and Astounds
Maureen O'Brien
September 27, 2025
We return over and over to the same place, a connection to the unswerving, the unchanging: God.
When Joy Swims
Maureen O'Brien
September 25, 2025
Like many who follow Francis, I’ve read “Canticle of the Creatures” over the years, but recently sought it out again for the words “to you alone, Most High, do they belong”.
Whispers of Prayer from St. Clare
Maureen O'Brien
September 23, 2025
I’ve always been fascinated by how St. Clare drew so close to God in prayer while living most of her life entirely within the enclosure of San Damiano.