Scripture: A Mother's Lens

The dark clouds keep looming, waves pelting the interior places that no one can see. The wrestle is with my mission. In the honest, raw core of my heart there glimmers an allure of escape. Open to life Motherhood can feel like a wide-open string of crises. Our beloved son is prodigal-bent, and a few …READ MORE

Ever since becoming a mom, Eli and I have been close. Today’s first reading is ostensibly about Samuel. But for me, Eli steals the show. What mother can’t relate to the poor man who  just wants some sleep. Don’t you just hear the words in-between the lines of Scripture? The conversation between Eli and Samuel …READ MORE

The Baptism of Christ comes just one week after the celebration of Epiphany, when the wise men honor the birth of the Christ-child, bestowing upon him precious gifts of gold and frankincense, as well as the heart-breaking gift of myrrh. One week. Suddenly, we are thrust headlong into the beginning of Christ’s ministry. Gone are …READ MORE

Arise, be enlightened . . . for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee . . . Lift up thy eyes round about, and see . . . Then shalt thou see, and abound, and thy heart shall wonder and be enlarged (Is 60:4-5). I must confess, as …READ MORE

Two days ago we celebrated Christmas, the “holiday” which has driven Western economy through the last ten weeks of buying, decorating, and feasting. In the secular world, there are still a few more days to enjoy before New Year’s, when the whole season is packed away like a circus tent and we all go back …READ MORE

The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” But she was greatly troubled at …READ MORE