Liturgies for Parents

2 weeks ago | kaylacraig.substack.com | Kayla Craig

As we continue our slow journey toward the darkest night, I can’t help but marvel at how Christ, betrayed and beaten, embodies forgiveness. In a world that so often chooses retaliation, he chooses redemption. In the face of cruelty, Jesus opens his arms. This is the invitation of Lent: To loosen our grip, to release what cannot redeem us, and to prepare our hearts not only for death, but for the kind of love that rises again.

3 weeks ago | kaylacraig.substack.com | Kayla Craig

What if the thing pulling you away from God…looks like something good? Something noble? Responsible? Even spiritual? I have an outsized view of myself. Maybe you do, too. I want to stretch my arms over the world and protect it from harm. Every time another breaking news alert pops up, my heart drops—and I immediately feel pressure to fix it. Fix what, exactly? Centuries of injustice? Millennia of the human condition? If I’m honest, yes. I read the headlines. I see the pain in my community.

1 month ago | kaylacraig.substack.com | Kayla Craig

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1 month ago | kaylacraig.substack.com | Kayla Craig

Beeps and buzzes of the emergency department flutter in and out of our room. Propped on plastic pillows, my feverish son’s long legs dangle dangerously close to the edge of his bed. I look at him — all fourteen years of him — under the fluorescent hospital lights. I remember when he was a toddler, and I climbed into his metal hospital crib to watch Toy Story with him, rubbing his back until he forgot his IV and finally fell asleep. “Why didn’t you tell us you didn’t feel well?” I ask.

1 month ago | kaylacraig.substack.com | Kayla Craig

This week, we’re living in the yes, and of spring—the tension of what is and what is still becoming. Lent's now-and-not-yet mirrors the season's slow unfurling, where new life stirs beneath lingering frost. In times steeped in conflict, fear, and division, we remember Saint Patrick—not for shamrocks and green beer but for the truer part of his story. A captive turned missionary, he returned to the very place of his suffering, not with bitterness but with love.