Saying Grace Growing up in a Catholic family, my parents did what they could to instill a sense of reverence and a prayer life in us. We had a bedtime prayer routine, and we said grace at any meal we sat down together for at home. When my brother and I were youngest, the grace before ...

From the practice room …  When learning a piece of music, there are a whole slew of ways we can go about practicing.  Some ways of learning or practicing help a piece of information click sooner than others.  While other ways accidentally teach us the wrong way before we get to the right one.  A method ...

Sometimes hope can be hard to find.  Sometimes when we have had evidence to the contrary, actively choosing hope can feel painful.   But it’s easier to find hope when we’re in the practice of doing so.  Sometimes something silly helps crack me open – like pondering on the way to spell muscle.  Maybe I’ll have mussels ...

by nadine j. smet-weissspiritual director hopeentangledwith loveat the center eternal sparkof imaginationin formingcreation open widelet it growlet it flowthrough you