On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
Published: May 15, 2026 There is a strange and almost countercultural honesty in the way Jesus speaks to His disciples in today's Gospel. He does not offer them a motivational speech. He does not minimize what lies ahead or wrap their future in comfortable reassurances. Instead, He looks them in...
Read reflectionPublished: May 14, 2026 There is a line in today's Gospel that has the power to stop us completely, if we let it land the way it was meant to. Jesus, speaking to His disciples in the intimacy of the upper room, says ...
Read more →Published: May 13, 2026 There is a particular kind of tenderness in the way Jesus speaks to His disciples in tonight's upper room discourse. He does not overwhelm them. He does not lay out the entire mystery of God i...
Read more →Published: May 12, 2026 There is a particular kind of grief that comes not from tragedy, but from love. It is the grief we feel when someone we cherish must leave, when a season we treasured must end, when the famili...
Read more →Published: May 11, 2026 There is a moment in the Last Supper discourse when Jesus stops preparing His disciples for glory and begins preparing them for suffering. It is not a comfortable turn. But it is an honest one...
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