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As a single woman, I struggle so often with feeling like I’m “missing out” on my life. I feel the desire to give myself away, to bring myself into something greater, to be called out to a great mission and do something extraordinary. And then I feel frustrated when there doesn’t seem to be any…

Happy Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, the day we contemplate the great mystery of our one God in three Persons. I don’t have anything remarkable to say about that (Lord knows I don’t want to be accidentally speaking heresy at anyone!) but I did have something I wanted to share about the heart of…

I saw Jesus’ face today. Now, before you get all excited, I didn’t see His face in any fantastical vision or euphoric experience. I saw His face in the mass, when the priest raised the consecrated host up to the faithful and said to us, “Behold the Lamb of God.” I love His face. When…

To say my relationship with the Lord has had its ups and downs would be an understatement. There have been times when I felt like I could trust Him completely, and others where I wasn’t sure if He was really there for me at all. Usually those moments when I feel like I can’t trust…

Last week I talked about the aching of our hearts, about feeling our longings and allowing ourselves to be poor before the Lord. We are called to not turn away from those longings, but to lean into them, and as we lean into them, we lean into Christ. And that ache has the power to…

Have you ever had something that you really, really wanted? You try and try to get it and you ask the Lord over and over again for it, but nothing happens. There’s no answer. There’s no movement. There’s no progress whatsoever. It’s really hard to accept that. If God loves me so much, why won’t…

There are a lot of things going on in my life right now, a lot of uncertain things. There are choices that need to be made and I don’t have everything I need yet to make those decisions. There are big questions and small questions, questions about my future and my calling, and the way…

I’ve been thinking about my journey with my reproductive health over the past few days. It’s hard to write about, I think in part because it’s a journey that is still very much ongoing, and I don’t have as many resolutions to share as I might want. It’s also hard just because this journey is…

I have been thinking about getting a second pair of glasses. Not exactly a great moral problem, but I have been going back and forth about it all the same. I don’t strictly need a second pair; I love the pair that I have. But, I would like to get a pair of glasses with…

Going to daily mass is hard for me right now. After two years of going because I thought I had to in order to “earn” God’s love, I find it difficult to try and settle into the liturgy and really be present to it. This causes me a lot of pain, especially because I now…