Spiritual Journey: Into the Heart of Unity

At the edge of your grief and the beginning of mine,where his loneliness intersects with hers,a little ways past our illusions about how perfect this life should be –somewhere in the gorgeous, throbbing fullness of our humanity,we are going to unite – We just need to find that placewhere our joys and sorrows dance togetherunder […]

Spiritual Journey: When you’re facing a threatening situation

When life feels like a freight train coming at me too fastto escape, I am grateful for the abilityto weave my small selfinto Your grandeur and hold on tightto the mysterythat unitesmy little storywith Your eternal onethat takes everything into accountand leaves no onebehind. Your strength becomes my own,and I borrow your powerto stand in […]

Deeper Life: Finding peace in turbulent times

When the earth shakes and the darkness swirls around you … When the wind howls threats and your whole world starts to shiver… When you’re dizzy with grief and fear and horror … You can always find your way back into the center. There is always still peace in the eye of the storm. Sometimes, […]

How I encountered Christ’s unifying love through the Miraculous Medal

Graces like rays of sun, warm my soul. Light up this dark world, help us grow. When my son was given the gift of the Miracle that Changed the Trajectory of my Life, I happened to be wearing a Miraculous Medal that was given to me by a friend, who was a faith mentor during […]

The simple path to peace … what Unite in Prayer is all about

If we’d all tune in and listen deeply enough to the Perfect Quiet inside, we’d all know the Way, the Truth and the Light for ourselves … We could wander in a trillion different directions and remain One, united beyond time and space, free like children playing, knowing what to do without making any sense. We’d […]

Deeper Life: Embracing uncertainty on the spiritual path

It’s fun to imagine we’re the ones with all the answers, but we’re just like everybody else – blind, compared to God. As much as our human nature wishes it did, true faith doesn’t have all the answers. To be authentic, faith has to embrace the mystery of God. Though we can learn a lot […]

Deeper Life: Learning to lovingly disagree with others

Do opinions need to be boxing gloves? Why can’t they be flowers? What if we’re all part of a bouquet in the hands of God? What if we each have a unique color, texture, scent and reason for being placed exactly where we are? Can’t we begin to see our differences as compliments to each other’s […]

How prayer cultivates unity

In case you can’t tell by the title of my blog, I have a heart for bringing people together. I struggle with the negative impact divisive political and religious discourse is having on our society. I want to use my voice to spread uplifting messages that help people connect to God and each other in […]

Sinple Faith: Embrace authenticity

When someone tries to impose their cookie cutter beliefs on us, we cringe for a reason. We can’t bear to be sliced apart from our natural connection with God. Some people think they know what’s best for us, but Deep down, we know what we need to protect. Deep down, we know our Creator doesn’t […]

Simple Faith: Appreciating diversity

I love it when my path intersects with someone, who’s climbing the same mountain on a completely different trail. Lets exchange stories and walk together for a while- maybe we can learn from each other. Maybe we can agree on some things about God.