Pause+Pray

Think of the children you regularly encounter in your family, neighborhood, parish, or workplace. They have much to teach us about the ways of God.

Sometimes stones surface in the landscape—on the surface, or at the searching point of my spade. The rock I carry in my pocket today will remind me to be centered on the Rock of My Salvation.

The Dominican Thomas Aquinas was one of the Catholic Church’s greatest theologians and philosophers. But the road to all that wisdom began when he was a youngster and asked the same question so many children do: “What is God?”

The uncertainty and conflicting research about the pandemic has led many to scrutinize their every move each passing day. Whenever you find yourself blindsided by pandemic-related anxiety today, stop, breathe, and pray.

Family life can play out in so many different ways. At the heart of each family, however, is love—even if at times it gets buried underneath the messiness of life.

Be a star and let your light shine. It’s not about ego or being special, but awakening to and bringing forth God’s presence in those you encounter today.