​I teach Spiritual Formation to sophomores and juniors at the high school. Each Monday we begin that class by meditating through the “weekly examen.” I adapted it from a prayer practice called the “daily examen” (admittedly, it did not require a lot of innovation). The purpose of this practice is to deliberately pause in order […]

I cherish the memories of when we celebrated National Hispanic Heritage Month at my Elementary school in Texas. We lived in The Rio Grande Valley area which you could locate best if I point you to the southernmost tip of Texas. It must have been the proximity to Mexico that inspired the abundance of festivities […]

“It’s good to be here with you…” As I continued thinking about, “It’s good to be me here with you” I began pondering the idea good to be here with you. It brought some questions to mind… Is it good to be here with you when things are going well? What about when things aren’t? […]

“It’s good to be me here with you.” You have likely heard this saying over the years as we have gathered together in classrooms and campus meetings and felt the loving presence of a speaker who is greeting us in such a kind way. Recently, as I was pondering this statement it seemed clear there […]

It started with oatmeal and a way to remember that it was Tuesday. A few weeks into home education of Spring 2020, we were experiencing the Groundhog Day strangeness of each day feeling like the one before. Laundry day was no longer enough to keep the days from morphing into each other. Weekends together definitely […]