Nest in the Depths of God
"Storms have no strength to upset [souls filled with God] even slightly, because there is no strength that can defy God. As the soul detects the storm, she puts the virtues in order, and goes to nest in the inmost…
Healing the Roots of Sin
From the Archives, for Lent 2025: I wrote this post 3 years ago and I wanted to share it with our community again. I pray you will be blessed by it! ORIGINAL POST, March 13, 2022: We are now two…
Beauty and Intimacy with God
Brutal. The only word to describe that interchange between my spouse and me years ago. A lifetime of unexamined wounds punching hard, my tender places receiving their blows... I was in tatters, grieving past all grief. With the lens the…
Prayer of Your Steadfast Love and Goodness
It is true there is an ebb and flow, but the sea remains the sea. - Vincent van Gogh. Lord, You are the sea. Although I experience many ups and downs in my emotions and often feel great shifts and…
The Love Challenge
Many years ago as I was being prayed with at a conference, the person praying over me said, "Love. Your vocation is love." I remember thinking, "That's what I am to do...love? Well, alright then, this will be so easy!…
Jesus is Ever Present
We may not have the physical presence of our Bridegroom in the way the disciples did, but the Bridegroom is very much with us, in the Eucharist and in His dwelling within the heart of our hearts.
Christmas Wonderings
...sit in pure, quiet adoration of the Beauty that is ever ancient and ever new held within the person of a sweet, newborn baby.
A Prayer of Gratitude to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Father God, Thank you for choosing Mary to carry and bear our Lord Jesus into the world
A Prayer for Compassion
Dear Heavenly Father, help me to be gentle towards every person I encounter today, in thought, word and deed. May I recognize that others are facing difficult circumstances which I know nothing about. Oh Lord, that others would encounter You…
Stay With Me Lord, a Reflection on Adoration
Because this chapel is physically located in Australia and I am watching from the US, each time I open up this video stream to pray with the Lord it's almost as if I am seeing into the future - and He is always there.