Consider Lent a time for tending wounds. Consider Holy Week a container for your pain, your heartbreak, your disappointment, your anxiety, your grief. Consider these days a time of special communion, in which you walk with Jesus. Your prayers this week can be simple: “God, help my hurting heart.” “Lord, take all that’s unresolved in [...]
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We have begun to consider what sin looks like in the big picture. But that’s not enough. Sooner or later, I must take that slow and thoughtful look at my own life and identify where, in that life, God’s love is disrupted, ignored, or pushed aside. Here are a few questions to help us with [...]
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Read this week’s excerpt from Bumping Into God Again, “The Face of God” here. It’s not so difficult to talk about God being present when someone is healed. After all, God’s the one who fixes our brokenness, right? This is the god we especially like—the one who doesn’t allow the discomfort to continue, or who [...]
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Read this week’s excerpt from A Healing Walk with St. Ignatius, “Hoarding Our Gifts”: It’s important to understand that healing involves more than the wound. A wound can usually get better; and most pain will eventually subside. Situations resolve, and life goes on. But the need for healing remains. Why? The need for healing remains because [...]
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Read this week’s excerpt: “I Was an Invisible Child” here: I can honestly say that both my parents loved me very much when I was growing up. I can also say that both my parents wounded me when I was growing up. When you put people together in a life, imperfection happens. We hurt one [...]
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