“Rather, I have stilled my soul, hushed it like a weaned child. Like a weaned child on its mother’s lap, so is my soul within me. Psalm 131:2
Enough of my yammering….today I invite you to sit in the presence of God. Take five minutes to simply sit before God and still yourself before the Lord. Nothing else matters.
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 was putting an essay together for a school project where the theme was “The Magic of the Moment”. She talked about a special night when we were camping this year. After my husband and I sent the kids to bed we took a walk down to the lake not far from our campsite. …
Today is the 12th day, or the Feast of the Three Kings. When the magi arrive and bring thier gifts to Jesus. The magi, rulers from foreign lands, risk thier lives to come and honor the Ruler of the world. This has always been one of my favorite passages in our collective story. When I was…
On a service trip to Kentucky when I was in college we met a gentleman in the back woods (mind you this was in the late 1980’s) who owned a mule named Samson. After all the work was done at his house he was sizing up a couple of my male friends trying to determine…
Most of the people who know me, know that I take at least one weekend a year and spend it with “my” monks. Several have died over the 27 years that I have been going and their vocations have gone the way of many other vocations. Our family, and the people I go there with…
I feel like my blog and I are at some peace again. We seemed to be fighting, each of us wanting to be heard, but I think we are finally there.Part of the problem is that it is post-holiday season and getting my thoughts to cooperate is no easy task. The kids have been sent…
Click the link to the Facebook post from Vatican Radio-English Edition. Pope Francis during his general audience today concedes to the playfulness of the wind. If you look, you can see him holding his cross. When I do this, I am praying to someone. My guess is that this is the secret to his joy…