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Judith Valente

Made For Joy, Made For Peace

It has been a strange Christmas season. Many of my friends who are normally upbeat and optimistic have seemed melancholic, if not downright…

1d ago

A calm stream next to bare birch trees.

1d ago

The Best Christmas Gifts, Ever

I recently reached out to a friend of mine — a young, lovely, successful professional woman — to make sure she had plans for Christmas. I…

Dec 22

Shoppers moving on escalators, looking over a second floor railing at a crowded department store decorated with Christmas trees and othe decor.

Dec 22

Finding Hope In Unexpected Places

I had an interesting experience recently attending an Advent prayer service at the Mennonite Church where I live (the Mennonite Church is…

Dec 15

A single yellow wild flower sprouts up within a crack in a concrete sidewalk.

Dec 15

An Invitation To Quietude

December is the time of year when the grizzlies sleep, the woodchuck slows its heart rate to just eight beats and minute, and the plant…

Dec 8

A fence in front of a line of bare trees and frozen ground.

Dec 8

Can I Hear An Amen To That?

In my weekly prayer group, a word that keeps cropping up is anxiety. An amorphous, general, constant anxiety. This despite the fact that so…

Dec 1

A pair of hands cups a burning white candle.

Dec 1

A Tough Thanksgiving This Year

Thanksgiving always has been my favorite holiday, just as one of my favorite gospel passages tells of the single leper out of ten who…

Nov 24

A child and an adult hold hands in prayer across a Thanksgiving dinner table.

Nov 24

Finding Solace (Again) In Poetry

In the most despondent periods of my life, a single consistent balm has helped healed my emotional wounds. Poetry.

Nov 17

Hard-bound poetry books sit on a table with two pink roses and a tea cup.

Nov 17

Overcoming Post-Election Despair

For many of us, the day after last week’s presidential felt less like morning in America, and more like mourning in America. I received a…

Nov 11

Four flat stones on top of each other next to a single smaller stone near a bamboo shoot against a green background.

Nov 11

Fear Not, The Sun Also Rises

For the past year, I have been attending 7 a.m. daily Mass at my local parish. On these autumn mornings when I set out for the church, it…

Nov 3

Sun rises beneath some clouds in a otherwise blue sky over rolling tree-studded hills.

Nov 3

What We Hold Onto, What We Let Go

Throughout my neighborhood, the autumn trees have started shedding their leaves, like forgotten memories. The grass has settled in for its…

Oct 27

What We Hold Onto, What We Let Go

Oct 27

Judith Valente

Judith Valente

Author of 4 spirituality books & 2 poetry collections. Award-winning reporter for Wall Street Journal, PBS-TV, Washington Post & 2 IL public radio stations.

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