Advent Invitation
Join me over at Heeding and Healing this Advent!
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.
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” As they left Jericho, a great crowd followed him. Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!” The crowd warned them to be silent, but they called out all the more, “Lord, Son of…
Awe and Wonder
Last week I went on a field trip with the 5th grade to a Planetarium at a local Ivy League school. At one point as we were watching the show of the sky over our heads, I realized that I was privy to an “awe and wonder” moment. Not one child made a sound. Not…
Atonement
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…
Mary, Full of Grace
We all know people in our lives that we look at and wonder how they can remain so graceful. My grandmother was one of those people, a farmers wife and daughter, hard working, lived through WWI and WWII, Vietnam, and other conflicts, the Great Depression, raising kids before antibiotics, living in the oftentimes unforgivable terrain…
Communion of Saints
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