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There is a sentence that sounds brave until you hear it from the underside of power. You need to hold them accountable. It is often said to the person who has already been wounded. The person who has already carried the cost, already spending too long wondering whether they are overreacting, whether they misunderstood, whetherContinue reading “Accountability”

There are moments when grace does not feel like peace, it feels like being cracked open. Not destroyed, not humiliated for the sake of humiliation, not reduced to the worst thing within us, but interrupted in that deeply uncomfortable place where our carefully maintained sense of innocence begins to fail. Most of us prefer graceContinue reading “More than decency”

Maturity is one of those virtues we rarely name directly. We praise leadership, resilience, professionalism, courage, wisdom, kindness. Yet underneath all of them sits maturity: that quiet, costly capacity to be more governed by truth than ego, more committed to the good than to being right, more responsible for one’s impact than attached to one’sContinue reading “The Strange Holiness of Growing Up”

There is a particular kind of joy that arrives when it has no business arriving. It is not the polished kind, nor the carefully staged version that depends upon circumstances behaving themselves, calendars clearing, bodies cooperating, relationships mending, or the world remembering how to be gentle. Sacramental joy is stranger and sturdier than that. ItContinue reading “When we really need the joy of Sacraments”

There are sentences in Scripture that arrive like a hand placed gently on the table. Not dramatic or loaded with sentiment. Not loud enough to silence the room. Simply there. Steady. Present. Waiting to be noticed. Do not let your hearts be troubled. Jesus speaks these words in John’s Gospel on the edge of loss.Continue reading “For the troubled heart”

There is a particular kind of wisdom that begins by looking down. Not in shame, not in fear, in attentiveness. We spend so much of our lives looking ahead: toward the next task, the next relationship, the next crisis, the next version of ourselves we are hoping to become. We are encouraged to keep moving,Continue reading “Look down”

There is a loneliness that does not come from being alone, but from being surrounded. It is possible to be competent, present, and outwardly fine, and still feel as though no one has really noticed you. Not simply noticed that you are there, but seen with the kind of attention that recognizes weight without demandingContinue reading “Unseen”

There is something deeply human about feet. They are not especially glamorous, so yes I am ignoring those who fastidiously prepare them at the nail salon. No one writes sonnets to them. They are rarely the part of ourselves we present first to the world. And yet they carry everything. They bear weight. They absorbContinue reading “Humble feet”