Category Archives: Jeannette de Beauvoir

Oct 15 2024

Cleaning The Outside Isn’t Enough / Limpiar el Exterior no es Suficiente

Click here for daily readings ** This reflection was reposted from Diocesan archives. ** Have you ever seen a surgical team scrub up before an operation? It puts mere handwashing to shame! It’s a good thing, of cour...

Nov 14 2022

Seeing is Believing / Ver es Creer

Click here for daily readings I have a confession to make: I don’t notice things. I’ll have spent half an hour with someone, and they’ll finally ask, “So what do you think of my new glasses?”...

Jul 16 2021

What Would Make You Sad?

Click here for daily readings I’ve been working with a client who is writing her memoir, and it’s got me thinking about the things we keep and the things we discard as we move through the different seasons of...

Jun 16 2021

Keeping it Simple

Click here for daily readings I often try to imagine what life was like in the early Church, in the first century, a Church still struggling to understand what it was meant to be, to become. My field of studies is the me...

May 16 2021

Starting Something New

Click here for daily readings Some years ago I became the legal guardian of an elderly woman who was showing early signs of dementia. We had known each other for some time, liked each other, and she had no family, so it ...

Apr 16 2021

I Can Overcome

Click here for daily readings One of my earliest memories is of watching the news on television. It was the late 1960’s, and we had only three TV channels in those days—this was in France—and they were ...

Mar 16 2021

Striking a Balance

Click here for daily readings I am a child of two very disparate worlds. My mother grew up in the American South, raised by staunchly Southern Baptist relatives, and she absorbed some odd practices: no drinking, no danci...

Feb 16 2021

Are The Waters Rising?

Click here for daily readings There’s a moment that strikes at every parent’s heart: the moment where your kid does something wrong, thoughtless, selfish. We try and try and try to help our kids become caring...

Jan 31 2021

Take Care—No, Really

Click here for daily readings I live on Cape Cod, where many of the old ships’ captain’s houses have been converted into inns. A couple of years ago a friend of mine, who owned one of them, told me in some di...

Jan 16 2021

He Knows Me So Well

Click here for daily readings There’s an obscure moment in an equally obscure musical during which two women, both in love with the same man, sing a duet titled I Know Him So Well. Oddly enough, this is the song th...

Dec 16 2020

We Are Children of the Light

Click here for daily readings I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume I’m not the only person pleased to be approaching the end of 2020. It’s been a year filled with pain, with uncertainty, with d...

Nov 16 2020

What Have You Lost?

Click here for daily readings Even today, I can remember the conversation. I was probably eight years old, or somewhere thereabouts. My friends and I were discussing our attachments to our senses. Which would you rather ...

Oct 16 2020

How Everything Changes

Click here for daily readings I used to sleep well. So well, in fact, that I could enjoy an espresso after dinner and still nod off the moment I went to bed. I loved the rest; I loved the dreams. Going to sleep at night ...

Sep 16 2020

How Old Do We Sound?

Click here for daily readings Sometimes you just can’t win. My friend recently lost both her cats to illness and old age, and I’ve been trying to be supportive of her… but some days that’s more d...

Aug 16 2020

Are You In… Or Out?

Click here for daily readings Were you one of the cool kids at school? I wasn’t, not until the very end of my high school career when I earned some respect by being dramatically anti-cool (which comes to me quite n...

Jul 16 2020

Finding Rest in Hope

Click here for daily readings I’m having a pretty easy plague season. I read the news and I know that out there are people who are very sick, who are dying or who have died, who have recently lost someone close to them. I ...

Feb 27 2020

The Road Begins Here

Click here for daily readings As I’ve probably shared here before, I live in a very small town that has a very big housing problem: second-home owners, seasonal rentals, and gentrification mean that it’s an increasin...

Feb 14 2020

The Circus Won’t Be Coming To Town

Click here for daily readings Recently my small town got very involved in a major brouhaha. We’re a tourist destination, and most people meet their financial obligations by working in the summertime and then trying to live...

Jan 31 2020

What Keeps You Up At Night?

Click here for daily readings Three o’clock. That’s when they usually come, the gremlins that wake me from my sleep and dance around my bed, reminding me of all the things I don’t want to think about. Three o&r...

Jan 16 2020

How Quickly We Forget

Click here for daily readings It’s pretty much a truism that many (if not most) people are quicker to ask for something than they are to be grateful for that thing once it’s given to them. This is nowhere more appare...