Wednesday Wisdom: The Gift of Patience. I’ve heard so many people talk about the need for patience in the last few days that I took it as a sign for what to focus today’s blog post on. One person shared with me about feeling hurt from a disagreement with a friend, and how…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Growing in Love. Love is powerful, and it is a healing force in our lives. As Saint Theresa of Calcutta teaches us: Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. When my mother was alive…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Opening the Heart This past weekend, my husband and I traveled to Palm Springs for my mother’s memorial mass. It was a goodbye to so many things–to the house where we shared so many meals, conversations and memories with my mother and father and family for almost thirty…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Sharing Our Journey of Loss and Love. This past Sunday, St. Ignatius Parish had a beautiful “Mass of Remembrance.” As I entered the church, my heart felt tender. This year, I would be remembering my mother, who had died a few weeks ago. I immediately went to the…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Sharing Our Human Experience. I have been sharing the news of my mother’s recent death with many people–extended family, friends, colleagues, people at church, as well as my yoga teacher, my spiritual director, and women in the locker room at the pool that I’ve known for years. There…
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Blessed are those who mourn: for they will be comforted Sunday evening my mother died. She was elderly, and in many ways this was expected at some point soon, but the series of events in the last month were dramatic, and her death felt sudden. I pulled out some vignettes from…
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