by Claire Dwyer | Mar 22, 2025 | Discernment, Let Yourself Be Loved, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
When I speak or write about St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, I often focus on her now-famous message, “Let Yourself Be Loved.” Leading retreats, I walk attendees through an imaginative prayer experience where they go with the Good Shepherd back into the places of...
by Claire Dwyer | Mar 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
My children have a wooden toy that is designed to help with concentration and coordination. Held in your hand, the challenge is to use fine adjustments in your grip to line up rotating magnetic disks in a straight tower–not an easy task, since the disks easily swing...
by Claire Dwyer | Apr 25, 2024 | Discernment, Everyday Holiness, Present Moment, The Sacred Everyday
My friend and I were supposed to be strategizing, but we found ourselves commiserating. Working wives and moms of many, we had, in the past, diligently organized our little blocks of time. On paper, everything lined up in tiny, tidy squares. A time for this, a time...
by Claire Dwyer | Sep 14, 2023 | Discernment, Spiritual Direction
My husband, riffling through the junk drawer, held up a fistful of keys. “Don’t you think it’s time you returned these to the parish?” “I forgot about those,” I said thoughtfully as I put my coffee in the microwave for the third time that morning. There were many...
by Claire Dwyer | Aug 11, 2023 | Discernment
I’d prayed. Thought. Asked for advice. Researched. Considered. Reconsidered. My anxieties and misgivings (you can’t do this; you’ll fail and everyone will see you fail; this will take too much time away from your family) pushed against the growing sense that this was...
