I couldn’t have explained it while it was happening, but there have been moments in my life when I quickly and intimately connected with an absolute stranger. I’ll find myself confiding the most personal of details to this person in line at the grocery store, or at a party or on the sidewalk. Or I […]
Shemaiah Gonzalez
Shemaiah Gonzalez is a freelance writer living in Seattle and the author of Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The prayers of my junior high math teacher have sustained me far beyond my school years
I want this for my own children and their classmates, that they will feel the prayers of their community as they navigate a world that views our faith as old-fashioned, ridiculous and even malicious.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The weight of attending Mass for those who cannot
As part of that small number of parishioners able to take the Eucharist, I felt that holy burden to be present in the Presence for those who could not be there.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why I taught my kids to call our homeless neighbors ‘Peace Men’
In these women and men I see my sister, myself, my God.