by JAC | Dec 29, 2020 | Publications, Simplicity
Early in the pandemic I started to regret my brief foray into minimalism slightly. I still have a small space and like order, but I can understand now why my grandparents and my parents saved so much. I wrote about it and it’s up on The Washington Post’s,...
by JAC | May 9, 2019 | Love and Loss, Mindfulness, Simplicity, Uncategorized
“In our deepest self we keep living with the illusion that we will always be the same.” Henri Nowen “It’s really very simple,” my late spiritual director, Gladys, once said to me. She was talking about how she lived each day, waking up,...
by JAC | Mar 26, 2019 | Simplicity, Transformation, Uncategorized
“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.” ― St. Augustine of Hippo Along with the decluttering reading and course I embarked upon earlier this year, and in part to understand the root of the...
by JAC | Feb 28, 2019 | Lent, Mindfulness, Simplicity, Transformation, Uncategorized
I keep thinking about writing here, and then for some reason I don’t. There is just such an overwhelming amount of words and thoughts out in the world and at our fingertips; I hesitate to add to it just for the sake of saying something or building a...
by JAC | Jun 8, 2018 | Big Words, Simplicity, Uncategorized, Waiting
“This ordinary time is gifted in its quiet, marked passing Christ slips about calling and baptizing, sending and affirming, pouring his Spirit like water into broken cisterns, sealing cracks and filtering our senses, that we may savor the foolish...
by JAC | Apr 18, 2018 | Acts of Hope, Simplicity
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. Elizabeth Edwards I’ve been busy working on...