Jason
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Reminders that God is in Love with You
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in ReflectionsI’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…
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What?!
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in ReflectionsFun 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…
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Best Comeback Ever
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in ReflectionsI 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…
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Thank God for the Struggle
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in ReflectionsWith 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.…
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Giving Credit Where It’s Due
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in ReflectionsGod 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…
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Drawing Near to God
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in SaintsIn 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.
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The Wastefulness of God
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in ReflectionsI 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…
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Muddy Water
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in AdorationYou and I are jars of muddy water. When our lives are in constant motion, everything is murky. Even our prayers are busy. At a recent men’s group meeting at church, Deacon Jim noted that prayer isn’t meant to be a flurry of activity in which we busy ourselves with a holy to-do list: Read…
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The Boring Road to a Magical Life
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in ReflectionsI am not a natural-born rule breaker. This may come as a surprise, coming from someone who wrote a book about breaking rules. The obvious question for anyone who knew me as a child is, “How did you go from being a shy boy who was afraid of new situations and spent an eternity in swimming lessons to a guy…
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Training Wheels
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in ReflectionsJesus is many things. He is our Lord, Savior, Teacher, Brother, and Friend. You know what He isn’t? Training wheels. At least not in the way we normally use them. I’ve been working on the virtue of fortitude for the past few years. I’ve mistakenly assumed that it involves me sucking it up and becoming…