Pause+Pray

It’s tragic how we measure success based upon the “P’s.” Bill thinks it’s about power. Arlene craves popularity. Joseph lusts for prestige. Mary wants privilege.

Reflect One of my nightly rituals is checking my email to find messages from my husband, their subject lines indicating they’re from our online local newspaper. They’re his favorite comics from that morning’s read, ones he’s carefully curated: Zits, Peanuts, ...

Reflect In his poem “The Peace of Wild Things,” Wendell Berry writes about how peace can be found and experienced in the wild things found in nature. There is something healing, even freeing, about resting in the grace and beauty ...

Reflect The name Satan didn’t always mean “the devil.” Originally this word meant something more like “the accuser.” In Job 1—2, he is a kind of prosecuting attorney in charge of presenting God with evidence of how badly things are ...

Reflect In the lower level of the soaring Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, the tunic of Francis is spread under glass, patched together with yellow stitches of thread. Today, consider how one of the world’s most influential saints lived ...

Reflect There are no normal families. All families have their eccentricities, their conflicts and their virtues. Some families struggle more than others, but all of them need our prayers. Pray Lord,by your incarnationyou became a brother to me.You know the joysof having ...