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  • Face to Face with Jesus

    Face to Face with Jesus

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    There I was, sitting at the feet of the Holy Family. Seemingly by accident. It was a late October afternoon. I was trying to read some letters I’d received, which was becoming increasingly difficult in the darkening church. I lamented my situation when suddenly, a light switched on above this beautiful carved statue on the…

  • Providing for the Birds

    Providing for the Birds

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    One morning, I was watching the birds gather around the feeder outside my studio.  As they gorged on the all-you-can-eat seed buffet, I reflected on the Bible verse about God providing for the birds. “Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly…

  • Galaxy of Wonders

    Galaxy of Wonders

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    You are the God who works wonders. —Psalm 77:14 Wonder has been on my mind a lot lately. It bubbled up on a family trip to Florida as I pondered the millions of seashells piled on the beach. Wonder is one of the core traits children possess, and something I tried to capture in the…

  • Reminders that God is in Love with You

    Reminders that God is in Love with You

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    I’m a baby person. Whenever I see a baby or a toddler in public, I try to get them to smile or laugh. It’s my own little mission, and it can be quite challenging. I had a big win in an airport recently. I’d passed through security and was waiting on a bench for the…

  • What?!

    What?!

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    Fun fact about the Catholic Church: we love a good fast, but we feast even harder. With the forty long days of Lent behind us, we now inhabit the fifty days of Eastertide, the liturgical period joyfully celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus, beginning on Easter Sunday and ending on Pentecost. We’ve got the Lent thing…

  • Best Comeback Ever

    Best Comeback Ever

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    I remember the buzz that spread in 1995 when, after a two-year absence from the NBA, Michael Jordan announced his return to the Chicago Bulls in a fax that said simply, “I’m back.” Despite feeling like an ancient technology, the fax machine did not actually exist during the Roman Empire. Still, I like to imagine…

  • Thank God for the Struggle

    Thank God for the Struggle

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    With Holy Week upon us, we’re nearing the end of Lent. Perhaps your prayer time was not as prevalent (or fruitful) as you’d hoped. Perhaps the sacrifices you committed to were more difficult than you expected, let alone the challenge of actually keeping them. Lent is a slow slog, filled with struggle. Lent is hard.…

  • Giving Credit Where It’s Due

    Giving Credit Where It’s Due

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    God has every right to be an egomaniac. He is, after all, a pretty big deal. I suppose God taking the credit for every good thing is sort of like a 7-foot-tall basketball player saying, “I’m tall. I’m so tall. Did you know I’m very, very tall? Look how tall I am!” Yeah, we got…

  • Drawing Near to God

    Drawing Near to God

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    In this uplifting and lighthearted presentation, artist, author, and national speaker Jason Kotecki shares simple ways we can follow in the footsteps of our spiritual heroes, the Saints. This talk was given on March 17, 2026, at St. Clement’s Church, as part of the Sheboygan North Catholic Parish Lenten Soup Supper Series.

  • The Wastefulness of God

    The Wastefulness of God

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    I saw something on a Florida beach that I can’t get out of my mind: Clear evidence of the inefficiency and wastefulness of God. It was our first day of vacation on Little Gasparilla Island, a thin sliver of land north of Fort Myers, accessible only by a passenger ferry. I was walking barefoot along…