by Leah Perrault | Mar 31, 2016
On a particularly strange day this spring, three separate voices brought me the same message: “God is delighted with you.” Hours earlier, and in the days and weeks before, I was immersed in my own living: making meals, learning at work, driving kids to swimming...
by Leah Perrault | Mar 3, 2016
Photo Credit: Stephanie Strauss Hall There’s a lot of talk about mercy in the church right now, and in all generations, but especially this year, thanks to Pope Francis. I have been given several opportunities to speak about it. But everywhere I go, there is at least...
by Leah Perrault | Feb 18, 2016
Photo credit: Sandy Normand For a long time, just the word gentle made me uncomfortable. It was not as if I was incapable of holding a fragile object with great care or speaking softly; it was too many years of absorbing messages about gentleness as a “feminine”...
by Leah Perrault | Feb 6, 2016
Photo Credit: Sandy Normand Hope is an elusive thing. My soul needs it like my body needs water – hour after hour and day after day. Like water, hope can be held inside me for a while but then I have to find a source outside myself. When I’m drained or overwhelmed,...
by Leah Perrault | Jan 21, 2016
Over the last several weeks, our baby girl has been learning to walk — a deeply spiritual practice, if you ask me. It begins with tentative and almost unintentional experimentation before it gives way to gradual practising, when circumstances (like siblings, food or...
by Leah Perrault | Oct 7, 2015
Photo Credit: Sandy Normand Several years ago I found myself face down on my office floor crying, trapped in a darkness of depression only I could see. Somewhere beneath my tears I found the strength to do what I had not been able to imagine before: I picked up the...
