Embracing Darkness
It all begins with an idea.
Traditional Catholic wisdom teaches us to call on God to scatter the darkness, but it took a young Saint and Doctor of the Church to turn that wisdom upside with a radical spirituality that captures the very heart of the Gospel: embrace the darkness so that God’s mercy may overflow into all the dark places to transform it. In this talk, we look to St. Therese of Lisieux to find hope in our chronic struggles and the mercy that can be found in the broken and hurting places of our lives.
Father, Forgive Me
It all begins with an idea.
How do you recover when an important relationship in your life is broken? Forgiveness is a powerful yet mysterious part of human life. When we hold onto hurt or resentment it’s like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies. But when we align our head and our heart and intentionally dive deeper into ourselves, we’ll learn the true joy of the Father’s heart. In this talk we follow the journey of reconciliation between a daughter and her alcoholic father and the visit to the confessional that changed everything.
Hope Against Hope
It all begins with an idea.
Pandemic. Protests. Lost time. When everything that we’ve planned out doesn’t go our way, is God even for us? How do we have hope? How do we grieve what was and live for what’s present? In this talk we go to the foot of the Cross to discover what Mary can teach us in the darkest hours of our lives.
Unbecoming
It all begins with an idea.
Running from one zoom meeting to the next, managing long days, sleepless nights, endless to-do lists, all in the name of becoming something – someone. But what if the very essence of life was unbecoming everything that isn’t you so you can be who you were meant to be? In this talk, we’ll look at common myths women tell themselves and turn to the spirituality of the present moment to find a fuller, more joyful life.