Monthly Archives: November 2023

Audacious Ignatius, Adopted

Five years ago this week, Audacious Ignatius was born.

With joy, gratitude, and lots of mailing tape, I packed up all these boxes on our kitchen counter and brought them to the local post office to share with folks who believed in the project from the moment we shared it on Kickstarter.  

And what a brilliant first five years it has been… What has made this project so rich is the partners and companions that generously lent feedback and enthusiasm to the effort of sharing the book.  

And so we are delighted that Audacious Ignatius has been adopted by Loyola Press, so that we can share the book more widely and efficiently.

Audacious Ignatius is now available at Loyola Press’ website and (for the first time!) on amazon.com.

Thanks, as always, for being a part of our books’ journeys.

Seeing as Though Our Life Depends on It

Everyone has someone with whom it is difficult to get along.

What if we were to live as though this person holds the key to some knowledge that our life depends on? What if we knew we would learn a crucial lesson if we could just quiet the story about them in our heads long enough to actually see them in their fullness?

I believe that our life together *does* depend on this type of seeing.

It’s time to get curious about that person and to learn something through the process.

Small Stories

Solitude allows us to slow down and consider how very small and needlessly complicated are many of the stories we rehearse within our heads.

(“Small” and “complicated” seem, at first glance, to be opposites, and yet, that is exactly what these unworthy stories are.)

Letting go of these stories frees us to receive the gift of the story of how profoundly we are loved.

The Final Freedom

Viktor Frankl named “the last of the human freedoms” as the ability “to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances… to choose one’s own way.” (Man’s Search For Meaning)

And, of course, he has serious authority.  This assertion was made as he reflected on his time in four different concentration camps.

His point is universally important and applicable: how we face the day is a deeply moral and creative act.  

Every moment offers us the possibility to change the story to be more constructive, more loving, more curious.