Minute Meditations

Francis knew that idolatry was the key sin in the Old Testament.

St. Teresa of Avila’s prayer life did culminate in the “spiritual rain” of mystical union with Christ.

For decades, the saints have been my mentors in prayer, faith companions whom the centuries cannot separate, beloved friends.

I spend my last night of my pilgrimage to Italy on the balcony of my hotel room drinking wine and looking up at a heavy sky.

This one small moment shows how seeming insecurity, and daring to name it, can also be a pathway toward truth and learning about oneself.

All of these things are there for us to discover within ourselves. I’ll close with this line from another great memoirist, Elizabeth Gilbert: “I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure.”