I share my life with my husband Phil Meeks, who teaches in the political science and international studies department at Creighton, and with our two sons and two daughters who range in age from second grade to college.  I like reading and creative domestic things (but not dishes!) I have a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's in theology.  I teach in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program, and facilitate shared reflection among adults in small faith-sharing groups and women's retreats in my parish community. 

I grew up seventh in an eventual family of 13 children in an oil town in East Texas near Houston, of folks who emigrated from Cajun Louisiana after earning the first college degrees in their farming families.  My dad is a retired research chemist and my Mom the best cook (especially of shrimp gumbo) in the world. 
 

I have heard it said that the Word of God reads US ever as much as we read It.  More and more, I have found this to be so true--if I let it.  My journey has moved from basic questions one asks of life--"What?" and "How?" and "Why?"--to the much more central, wonder-full, and simple "Who?"  That is, "Who is this Jesus, this Christ, this God, who has entered my humanity and invited me to share his Life?"  When I am asked to write a reflection on the readings of the day, the invitation often leads me again to encounter this living Who--this dynamic Spirit Jesus shared with "Abba" and shares with me (if I accept).  Ironically the invitation is to experience simultaneously my own deepest "who," myself at the center, before and beyond any one role I hold in life.  Writing the reflection helps me to solidify this experience and to take it back into my world and my various roles.  I hope this is communicated to readers of the reflections and helps them to do the same. 
 

e-mail: cmeeks@creighton.edu