Natalie Ryan

Reflect Our life’s pilgrimage can get muddied rather easily with expectations, opinions, and norms of society. St. Francis is a great example of how to

Reflect Silence and solitude are not loneliness, but stillness. In the stillness is an invitation to enter into the sacred presence so that we can

Reflect Advent is a season of waiting. The Lord is developing and preparing us through the waiting. Let’s thank Jesus for the season of joy

We have been gifted with the ability to breathe God’s breath. It’s God’s breath in our lungs. In and out, nourishing our bodies. In and out, touching every fiber of our beings.

When you set out to serve in your community, your body goes on defense to protect you. God designed our bodies as armor for our health so that we can serve his people without worry.

Far too often we strive for the next goal, or focus on what we don’t yet have. By doing so we lose sight of the fact that months ago, three years ago, a decade ago, we prayed for this very thing in life. The dreams of our past sometimes become the realities of our present.