Let Go of the Hurt

Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, PhD May 23, 2025

Search your heart for a lingering resentment about a difficult encounter or conversation, recent or longstanding.

leader in front of team with a welcoming and humble pasture.

Lead Like St. Francis

Sara P. Marks May 22, 2025

When a leader leads as to elevate all their community, a rare thing happens: The leader opens herself or himself up to transformation.

Have you ever weeded a garden? It is a very important practice, yet it can be frustrating as well. You must get down on your hands and knees and carefully pull them out by the roots unless you want them to come back

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God Is Right Here

Maureen O'Brien May 21, 2025

When we pray and seek out God, we are often led right to what’s already here in our lives.

Family Challenges

Daniel Imwalle May 20, 2025

Family is at the core of our social structure. But sometimes we take our families for granted or even experience deep rifts with some of our loved ones.

Holy Mary, Mother and Mystic

Murray Bodo, OFM May 20, 2025

Mary’s life, like that of her son, will be a living out of her own canticle

Christlike Parenting

Carie Moore May 19, 2025

To parent with the fruits of the spirit with unconditional love, patience, gentleness, and self-control is to parent biblically.

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I Know You’re There, God

Colleen Arnold, MD May 19, 2025

Recently, as I drove home from work, I hit a patch of dense mist rising from the river. Even my fog lights were useless. I knew the road was still there—I’d traveled it hundreds of times—but I was scared. Sometimes, following God is like that.

mother watching over her child while standing at a peer at the ocean.

Death Is a New Beginning

Jim Van Vurst, OFM May 18, 2025

Our faith has a way of answering questions and helping us understand that their deaths and those of all our loved ones are not signs of an ending, but rather a new beginning for them.