Cloister Garden

“Our life here isn’t natural,” Sr. Emma, the vocational director, had told us. “It’s super-natural.”

Our baby girl would be born in that pandemic darkness, but she would not stay there.

As we welcomed in 2019, my husband and I agreed upon our New Year’s Resolution: to try for a second child.

Because Jesus is God and outside of space and time, His Life continues to be lived, mysteriously, in each of His followers.

Like Abraham, “who went out, not knowing where he was to go,” (Hebrews 11:8), I was embarking on a journey with an unknown endpoint.

The Lord was calling me. He spoke to me in those intimate Thursday mornings before the Blessed Sacrament, and through the beauty of the

In the spring of 2010, I worked as an Army public affairs intern on Fort Hood, Texas, a 24-hour drive from my Michigan home. I used my...