New Day!
Since it is January 10th, I have decided to briefly come out of my cocoon and get some work done. Bear with me as I get this blog reoriented into regular time.
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.
My daughter (15) is receiving her Confirmation this year and in a conversation the other day I found out that she is not 100% sure that she wants to commit to a church that has let it’s people down so much and that has more importantly, not always followed what it has preached. Did I…
Please stand, as I introduce you to my newest friend, (and recent harvest) Mr. Carrotpants. Oh sure, he looks like an orange Butterball turkey but he is ALL carrot. I posted this on a social media site and someone mocked it, in jest called it a, “monstrosity” (Poor Mr. Carrotpants!) but it made me think…
“Give ear, listen humbly,for the Lord speaks.Give glory to the Lord, your God,before it grows dark;Before your feet stumbleon darkening mountains;Before the light you look for turns to darkness,changes into black clouds.If you do not listen to this in your pride,I will weep in secret many tears;my eyes will run with tearsfor the Lord’s flock…
I received an unexpected phone call yesterday from a family member who hasn’t communicated in three years; a self-imposed exile I guess. Our relationship has been tenuous for most of it, but there have also been good times. I always wonder if it is a good idea to reconnect and yet my instinct is to do…
“Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone accross the entrance of the tomb and departed. But Mary Magdelene and the other Mary remained sitting there, facing the tomb.” Matthew 27:59-61I believe the other…