Minute Meditations

Prayer is grounded in the profound interdependence of life. Our prayers of gratitude remind us that no one is self-sufficient.

We need the Franciscan vision of all creation singing praises to the Creator if we are to flourish in the years and centuries to come.

Where love is genuine, belonging is always mutual. It is like submerging ourselves into an ocean of sublime grace.

Gratefulness can be practiced, cultivated, learned. And as we grow in gratefulness, we grow in mindfulness.

There is a phenomenon—if there’s a scientific name, I don’t know of it—where the trees break and fall into one another’s arms. I’ve come to call these tree pietas.

Psalm 139 takes us all the way back to when we first became. It reveres the beauty of our very beginnings and returns us to the miracle of our mothers.