Stephen Copeland

Consider wearing a cross around your neck, on your wrist, or putting a rosary in your pocket. When you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to pause and touch the cross.

In dark times we sometimes struggle to find words not only to pray but to describe what we are going through to anyone.

When Francis of Assisi was blind, ill, and on his deathbed, he wrote his famous “Canticle of the Creatures.” What if we allowed the Incarnation to stir our hearts as it did for Francis, even when we feel lost or frail?

The great philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich once wrote about the profound inner movement of “accepting your own acceptance.” God loves us as we are, not as we should be.

Henri Nouwen’s book “The Return of the Prodigal Son” was inspired by a chance encounter Nouwen had with a reproduction of Rembrandt’s famous painting.