Lacy Finn Borgo

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Articles & Essays by Lacy Finn Borgo

Book Excerpt

Awake and Connected to Our Divine Parent

Published May, 2023 • Featured February 6, 2023

Lacy Bor­go invites us to strength­en our con­nec­tion with God by learn­ing from the move­ments of young chil­dren towards their par­ents and from the prayer-move­ments of Daniel in Babylon.

Essay

Finding God at the End of Our Rope

Published December, 2020 • Featured December 16, 2020

Dal­las Willard was right, says Lacy Bor­go, ​“God’s address is at the end of our rope.” To stay cen­tered and con­nect­ed in sea­sons of strug­gle, she invites us to pray the Psalms and to play as a ​“stub­born act of hope.”

Book Excerpt from Spiritual Conversations with Children

The Language of Play and Projection

Published February, 2020 • Featured March 31, 2020

In this excerpt from her book, Spir­i­tu­al Con­ver­sa­tions with Chil­dren, Lacy Finn Bor­go helps us lis­ten to chil­dren and dis­cov­er play and pro­jec­tion as tools for know­ing God and know­ing self.

Essay

Cooperating with the Movement of the Spirit in the Life of a Child

Published July, 2017 • Featured March 8, 2020

Lacy Finn Bor­go explores the excit­ing realm of spir­i­tu­al for­ma­tion in chil­dren. Here she looks at how adults can coop­er­ate with the work the Holy Spir­it is already doing in chil­dren’s lives to draw them deep­er into the good­ness, beau­ty, and truth of the with-God life.

Essay

Unlimited Liability: A Movement Towards Generosity

Featured October 27, 2019

“Gen­eros­i­ty is both our deep­est desire and an act of defi­ance against our cul­tur­al land­scape that puls­es with mes­sages of scarci­ty.” Lacy Bor­go shares per­son­al­ly and pro­found­ly in this social jus­tice-themed essay.

Essay

Eastertide: How to Party Like a Christian

Published March, 2011 • Featured April 24, 2019

“Tragedy draws us togeth­er, but cel­e­bra­tion binds us. There is noth­ing like a good par­ty to make a peo­ple one.” East­er is a sev­en-week cel­e­bra­tion, and Lacy Bor­go shares some ideas on how to make the most of it.

Essay

Imagining Resurrection

Published April, 2015 • Featured April 16, 2019

What can you offer chil­dren who know too well the Holy Sat­ur­day themes of ​“empti­ness, lone­li­ness, and hope­less­ness”? How do you help them see the whole sto­ry — to imag­ine the res­ur­rec­tion and its abid­ing hope? Lacy Finn Bor­go shares this per­son­al reflec­tion for all seasons.

Essay

Can Children Hear God?

Published July, 2011 • Featured January 24, 2019

Chil­dren, like adults, can learn to dis­tin­guish God’s voice from the many oth­ers that are clam­or­ing for their atten­tion. Lacy Bor­go shares how.

Article

Submitting is an Act of Choice

Published June, 2013 • Featured February 19, 2018

“Giv­ing up get­ting our own way” is Lacy Bor­go’s child-friend­ly def­i­n­i­tion of sub­mis­sion. And for this dis­ci­pline to be healthy, that ​“giv­ing up” has to be an act of choice.

Article

Children’s Spirituality: God Makes the First Move

Featured July 25, 2017

We are delight­ed to wel­come Lacy Finn Bor­go to explore some ideas about spir­i­tu­al for­ma­tion and chil­dren, begin­ning with this excerpt from her doc­tor­al dis­ser­ta­tion, Spir­i­tu­al Direc­tion with Chil­dren the Next Nat­ur­al Step in the Chris­t­ian His­tor­i­cal Pro­gres­sion of Chil­dren’s Spir­i­tu­al Formation.

Article

Families as Small Monastic Communities

Featured May 4, 2017

Today par­ents and church lead­ers are lament­ing the fact that chil­dren who have been raised with the foun­da­tion and knowl­edge of our faith are leav­ing it. [One] solu­tion lies in the advice of St. Jerome and John Chrysos­tom who wrote about this in the 3^rd century.

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What Time is It?

Featured January 18, 2017

Here we explore the rich­ness and invi­ta­tion of the Litur­gi­cal Cal­en­dar. Might it help us realign our own lives (marked as they are with clocks and day­timers) with the rhythms of God’s story?

Book Excerpt from Good Dirt: Advent, Christmastide & Epiphany (Volume 1)

Making Advent More Meaningful

Published November, 2013 • Featured November 10, 2016

“I hear the laments of par­ents. I am a lament­ing par­ent. Christ­mas is too much about the stuff. The stuff begins to clog up the super­mar­ket aisles as ear­ly as Sep­tem­ber.” Lacy Finn Bor­go shares ways to make Advent a mean­ing­ful sea­son by expe­ri­enc­ing the full­ness of wait­ing for the Christ child.

Article

Life with God for Children

Featured August 11, 2016

In her gen­tle, always child-affirm­ing way, our Lacy digs a bit into into the hows of her chil­dren’s cur­ricu­lum by shar­ing the four shap­ing prin­ci­ples she used when cre­at­ing it.

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A Conversation with God: Children and Prayer

Featured March 16, 2016

Few things are as reward­ing and chal­leng­ing as Chil­dren’s Min­istry, as Ren­o­varé Min­istry Team mem­ber, Lacy Bor­go, knows well. She is the cre­ator of the Life with God for Chil­dren, a home­school­ing mom, and a Sun­day School teacher. Here, she shares about pray­ing in unex­pect­ed ways with children.

Essay

Safe to Celebrate

Published November, 2013 • Featured November 7, 2013

Lacy Bor­go helps us learn why chil­dren are always ready to cel­e­brate, and how we can become the same.