Lent Begins!
Please join me at Lent Thing Seven for the holy season of Lent. I created a page above and a link beside. Hoping you come and visit and as always, please share your thoughts. Many blessings as we enter Lent.
Please join me at Lent Thing Seven for the holy season of Lent. I created a page above and a link beside. Hoping you come and visit and as always, please share your thoughts. Many blessings as we enter Lent.
Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
“For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.” James 2:26 “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear this O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,…
I remember when I used this blog to walk through our liturgical seasons. I miss those days! Here we are on day 4 of Advent and there have no indication on this blog we have transitioned into our season of waiting. Why does this matter? Well, because building my patience is a constant battle. Advent…
There are so many funny stories in our family and many take place on my grandparents farm in West Martinsburg but this one I am going to share because it is a favorite of mine and it reminds me of the story of the workers in the vineyard (Matt 20:1-16) and it makes me laugh.As the youngest…
“I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts” Ezekiel 36:26Ouch! I have a stony heart? This is actually a passage of the promise of God to the people of Israel to be restored, but I think it…
I think it will take everyone a while to move a little bit away from the events of this past weekend. In the next couple of days, a mother and father will bury their young daughter, a sister will bury her sister. Another family will come to grips that they have a murderer in it. How did any of…
The past couple of days have been my favorite kind of January days. A little snowy, Jane Austin filled and quiet…well until kids come home but that is good too. I have been moving from couch to couch, from chore to chore but have felt a real quiet, almost a stillness in my world. Ironic,…