"I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep."

"Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held."

"I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'."

"Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.It means "full of grace."

"The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see."

"From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story."

"Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will."

"This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe?"

"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."

"In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ."

"Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart."

"When I fully enter time's swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here."