Is God leading us into a desert, a sacramental wilderness because here he intends to speak to our hearts?

You can profess facts, but you can only trust a face. You can only entrust yourself to a person.

“The Lord speaks in the sacred Scriptures,” some might say. “There, you hear the voice of the shepherd.” This is good, but it is just not good enough.

Love is a resolve we must renew each day. We ought to remember this when we promise we will live differently, more deeply, once life returns to normal.

Staying behind closed doors may make us feel safe, but it keeps us from the people, the events and experiences that we need in order to grow into the selves we were meant to become.

The contagion that matters most the Son of God will receive into his own flesh.