Happy Mardi Gras everyone! Actually, Mardi Gras is this Tuesday — Fat Tuesday — but the Carnival season began on Twelfth Night and in New Orleans parades have been rolling and people have been partying since then. This is the time of year when people in Louisiana and other parts of the world parade through…

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” -Lao Tzu Last week I was so busy getting my latest ebook, Dragonslayer, on line, that I almost forgot Sunday Inspiration. And I did forget that it was the Sunday before Valentine’s Day. My bad! Luckily love never goes out of date,…

With the Super Bowl coming up today, I thought this would be an appropriate quote for all of us. Certainly no athlete can be successful without knowing how to accept and learn from failure. And it’s just as apparent that no human being can grow and find meaning and joy in life without letting failure become…

“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here… And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a…

“We are spending far too much of our time doing things that don’t really matter to us.” -Nancy Colier I was at the beach the other day with my husband — have I mentioned how much I love living in southern Florida? — and as soon as we got our chairs and umbrella set up…

I became interested in the Jesuits when I created a Jesuit character, Father Isaiah Colburn, in The Color of Light. As part of my research I began to follow Father James Martin, SJ, on Facebook, as well as the Jesuit magazine, America. This week I was entranced by America’s story of Andrew Garfield, who plays a missionary in…

“Today is a moment of light surrounded on all sides by darkness and oblivion. In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another just like it and there never will be another just like it again. It is the point to which all your yesterdays have…

“The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.” -Thomas S. Monson Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you, including your…