Happy Birthday to our Church!

http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pentecost-in-two-minutesI hope you enjoy this little journey to Pentecost! 

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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  1. Remind me sometime over tea to tell you the story of getting baptized in the Holy Spirt. It was a trip!! Very freaky – very blessing all wrapped into one! Totally get what the original Christians went through!

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