Pause+Pray

Reflect “If in bed, I say: When shall I arise? then the night drags on; I am filled withrestlessness until the dawn.” –Job 7:4 Have you ever felt that terrible feeling of being unable to sleep? The house settles down, lights ...

Reflect As a woodworker, I can ruin hours of meticulous effort in a single moment of inattention.  Whether it’s a work of art, a relationship, the bonds of social trust—destroying something is almost always easier and quicker than creating it. Forget ...

Reflect “Then He told them a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart” (Luke 18:1). In this parable that Jesus tells we encounter two figures: a dishonest judge, and an importunate widow, a widow so desperate ...

Reflect The great gift of craftsmanship is the ability to use your hard-won skill to bring something tangible, beautiful, and lasting into the world. Well-made things, shaped by human hands, connect us to the blessedly real material world and provide an ...

Reflect Because Catholicism is a sacramental, incarnated religion, “stuff” matters—our bodies, our surroundings and landscapes, the physical objects we encounter on a daily basis. All of these can reveal something of God and can be powerful ways to anchor and support ...

Reflect When Jesus tells the apostles to pray in secret, to go into their “inner room” and pray, what does He mean? Is He telling us to go hide in a closet, to create for ourselves a private chapel space with ...