Minute Meditations

I spend my last night of my pilgrimage to Italy on the balcony of my hotel room drinking wine and looking up at a heavy sky.

The answer God promises to give to you or me will be unique to each of us.

In intercessory prayer, I speak to God on behalf of another and their petition, be it a person, situation, or a community.

Clare’s name means “light.” She is the bright, shining one who reflected God’s love into the world.

It is not a matter of “carrying God inside us.” That would be too mechanical. It’s better to say that we are filled with God’s presence within us—along with our weaknesses and imperfections.

Living in precarity with faith in God’s providence may lead to this startling conclusion: I am rich because my needs are few. Enough will be enough.