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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Birthday
I have a good life. Even when there are trials I can see God working through the people in it. Perhaps that is the point of the this blog, to express my gratitude openly. So I am going to do that for just a moment today.Yesterday was my 45th birthday. The love and attention I…
The Upper Room
“”On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciple said to him “Where do you want us to go to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He sent his two disciples and said to them, “Go into the city and a man will meet you,…
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…
Who Do You Say I Am?
Here is an article in America Magazine entitled “The Lost Generation” about he loss of young women in our church. It highlights a couple of finding that are not so shocking if you are engaged with people anyway. But one question it asks is how do we draw young women back into the church? I…
Do You Feel Lucky?
“Turning to the disciples in private he said, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I say to you, many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see but did not see it, and hear what you hear, but did not hear it.” Luke 10:23-24This is written differently than in…
A Tuesday of Holy Week Thought
“As he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If this day you only knew what makes for peace — but now it is hidden from your eyes.” Luke 19:41-42When I read this passage, my heart breaks for Jesus, for Jerusalem, for all of us because we know what makes for…