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.
It occurred to me today that I accepted not one but two positions that I am pretty sure no one else wants. I discerned them at length… I really did. But I am already feeling the frustration of one of the drawbacks to one of the positions and I haven’t even become official. What a sucker I am. …
I should preface this post with a disclaimer: All of my girls are tough. They are all very capable and pretty well-rounded but Syd gets the attention today…My middle child (as she likes to playfully lament) was born after only 4 hours of labor and 20 minutes of delivery. I remember looking at her and saying,…
Rocks. I have been obsessed with them in one way or another since the beginning of the pandemic. I am not sure why, suddenly, I am in love with rocks. Well, suddenly isn’t accurate. There was that geology class in college and there is a need to connect with random rocks that began at the…
Here is an article from Fr. James Martin which I thought was a nice little follow up to yesterdays article about talking to your kids about the saints! Great food for thought! Nice way to start the day! (Except the image of St Lucy!) 🙂http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-james-martin-sj/the-saints-were-as-strang_b_776358.html
It feels as though in some ways we have been reliving and reliving that old Lenten feeling. Sure, we have had periodic reprieves where we are able to come up for air, bask in the sun and feel a little careless, but those days seem far too fleeting. Many of us have done our best…