White Christmas Count your Blessings
On this July day, when it’s 84 degrees with a lovely breeze this song came to me. Such beautiful voices…and so soothing! Just felt like posting it.
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.
Yesterday, in his address to the USCCB, Cardinal Dolan quoted G.K. Chesterton as a call to redirect in a sense where the conference has been focussing. “The premier answer to the question ‘What’s wrong with the world?’ is not politics, the economy, secularism, sectarianism, globalization or global warming … none of these, as significant as…
The images from this past week of the World Youth Day gatherings are stunning. This is my favorite among them. You want kids to show up? Go to the beach. Just like Jesus went to the people, I so love this Pope because that is what he does. Notice the tide behind them, the mountain before them. …
I have found that doing my yoga in full 80 minute sessions twice a week has made me much better focused and much more desirous of peace. So I want to put out there a little disclaimer about my rinky dink blog. I say rinky dink because I have been visiting many blogs lately and…
In today’s Gospel, Peter asks Jesus how many times we need to forgive, “7 times?” Jesus in return answers, “Not 7 times but 77 times!” My pastor preached a impactful homily on forgiveness and the meaning of the 77 times. As I have been catching up on bits and pieces of the news today, I…
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…
http://player.vimeo.com/video/33038352?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0Please click to see a beautiful video about the sanctity of life. Pregnancy is such a scary time, and I really can understand how some people struggle, but my prayer is that people can learn to trust in God who begins and ends all life. All life comes from his love…though sometimes the evidence looks…