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This weekend I had the privilege of attending my very first retreat with Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO) after just over a year of growth and journeying with others in the community. I had known that I would be going on this retreat for a few months already, and eagerly went to register when registration opened up. Little did I know that it would come at a pivotal time in my life, in the midst of a battle, and that it would shift my life to focus on something new. This is a

This year marks one year since my conversion. One year ago, at the Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO) annual conference Rise Up, I experienced God in a new and profound way. To better explain, I will share my testimony, which I wrote and shared at the CCO Founder’s Dinner in Vancouver, which took place in November of this year: There was a time when I thought that being loved by God meant having every aspect of my life figured out. I grew up Catholic and spent 13 years in Cath

Above all else, I think that a sense of belonging and feeling loved is the one thing that we all crave as humans. We yearn to belong, to be accepted, and to be taken as we are. We look for people to support us and help us grow into better people every single day. I had been thinking a lot about that over the past week. Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in a broadcast of a cross-Canada dialogue regarding the upcoming Synod of Bishops in October 2018. The name of t

If you have never reflected on your life – your WHOLE life – before, I invite you to give it a try. In our lives, we remember certain key moments and events that are worth remembering. Whether good or bad, there are some parts of our lives that are seared into our memories forever. These are the most vivid of all the memories. But in terms of looking back on our lives in its entirety, from year to year, season to season, it’s something that we rarely do. This is probably beca