Lisa Raie

Last week, I began this twelve-week walk into radical humility and childlike trust. My intention was to pay closer attention to the tug-of-war that takes place within me: the part of my human nature that wants to manage, organise, anticipate and control, and the quieter invitation to let go, let God, and allow life to unfold with greater ease and grace. I began noticing how many times I needed to return to my prayer prompts before my heart softened and my actions became less hurried. The...

More on that little cottage in Cahir, Ireland comes now but if you didn’t read my original scribbles, here it is here; https://www.studiokreat.com/post/art-spotlight-building-the-house-that-remembered When I first saw this photograph of the little cottage in Cahir where my three-times-great-grandmother Mary Martha and her husband John began their family life, I felt saddened by its derelict condition. It was difficult to see a place that had once sheltered my ancestors so weathered by time....

There are twelve weeks left in 2026. And rather than rushing towards the end of the year with another list of things I must accomplish, I am choosing something that, for me, may be far more difficult. I am choosing to surrender. Not as an idea. Not as a religious abstraction. But as a daily reality. I am choosing, for these final twelve weeks of 2026, to walk more deeply into a posture of radical humility and childlike trust. I am a Catholic woman living with chronic illness, while also...