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"Thoughtful conversations for a meaningful life "
conversations on faith, life, and the art of becoming.
These are questions that accompany us through life.
Questions about who we are, what makes a good life, how we ought to love, and what is being asked of us in the ordinary circumstances of our days.
The Given Hours is a place for those of conversations.
Rooted in the catholic understanding of the human person, we explore faith, family, work, beauty, and the unnoticed ways a life takes shape.
join us for the first conversation
Every life is a work of becoming.
In this first season, we return to some of the questions that shape us: where our identity comes from, what it means to flourish, how our loves and habits from us, and how the ordinary circumstances of life become the place where character grows.
Conversations about the life we have been given and the people we are becoming.
What does it mean to live well?
The opening conversation begins with faith, family, work, responsibility, beauty, ambition, and the ordinary days in which a human life is actually lived.
How much of your life did you actually choose?
A conversation about freedom, providence, limitation, and learning to receive the life already in our hands.
What helps a human life grow well?
what does it mean for a human being to flourish? We consider the life of virtue, the ordering of our loves, and the kind of happiness that grows through living well.
Why can a life filled with good things still feel scattered?
A conversation about attention, limits, competing responsibilities, and gathering the many parts of life around what matters most.
Who are you when your roles can no longer provide the whole answer?
This conversation considers the names we carry, the voices that have shaped us, and what remains when usefulness, achievement, and approval are no longer sufficient answers to the question of who we are.
What if identity begins with something received?
A conversation about belonging, grace, sonship and daughterhood, and what changes when we begin to live from an identity we do not have to earn.
How faith, relationships, work, responsibility, rest, and desire begin to find their proper place.
Doing meaningful work well without asking achievement to carry the weight of identity.
The Longing for Purpose
Purpose, vocation, responsibility, and discerning what this particular life is asking of us.
How character is formed through desire, choice, practice, grace, and the ordinary circumstances of life.
The quiet formative power of home: beauty, order, hospitality, relationship, memory, and the things we repeat there.
A final conversation about time, formation, fidelity, and the person our ordinary hours are making us.
A letter for the week ahead.