Author: Annette

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.

Happy Father’s Day

I am always amazed at the selflessness of good fathers.  But I am not so sure I was aware of the concept of fatherhood being a “hidden” life since growing up, your father is so important.  It has been in watching my own excellent husband as he has developed and continues to develop in his fatherhood…

Memorial Day

I found this video today, and it really touched me.  A little hard to watch but then it should be.  For me, and for many, Memorial Day is about celebrating…remembering too keeping in mind that I have vets throughout my family.  So we celebrate and live in freedom that despite our best effort, we take for…

Enraptured

Tough day to wake up to but I think it is better than the alternative, or is it??  If some fellow Christians had their way, we would have been taken up in the rapture on Saturday.  In their arrogance they have decided that God has empowered them and them alone with the date and time….even…

Missing in Action

Or Contemplative in action!  I have been both and there is much to tell about the beauty of God in the world. But this morning we will start with the very unChristian and uncomfortable topic of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.  Below is a study by the John Jay institute that was half funded…