Minute Meditations

Today, find a quiet spot and spend time with the psalms. With a pencil or sticky notes, freely mark words or lines that speak to you.

The psalms repeatedly encourage us to tell the truth of how hard life can be.

Sometimes, in the challenges of our lives, we can feel far from God’s help. 

Looking back I see how easy it was to blame God when I was the one who had gone away—forsaking the healing sacrament of God’s grace.

Jesus’s frequent refrain—“Do not be afraid”—should be our mantra of discipleship.

What makes a son good is not what he says to his father, but what he does after the fact by working in the fields (Matthew 21:28–31).