I Will Pray

http://youtu.be/4fYoTqkS_oUI feel compelled to share this.  How beautiful and unexpected that people can praise during devastation.  But people do, people do believe.  And they need help.

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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