Our Lady of Lourdes
Check out this live webcam of Lourdes and save it to your favorites….it is so powerful and can be a great tool for focussed prayer.http://www.lourdes-radio.com/player_live/player_live_en/player-token_en.php#
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.
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…
A very dear friend of mine has a brain tumor. She is beautiful, no one knows except a very few people. For some reason I am not worried about her. It appears to be slow growing and though she experiences intense headaches, I think she is going to be ok. This doesn’t stop me, however, from laying hands…
As it would happen, I am not sleeping well. Too much going on and too little exercise plus too many cats in the neighborhood have been making for restless nights. When I do wake up that is when my anxiety hits in full force. My legs get restless and my mind goes in twenty directions. …
I will be completely honest, I have no concept of time outside of the “to-do” list at this point. The past weekend found us hosting our annual cookie exchange and trying to celebrate Christmas with the kids in my program. My daughter returned from college and my husband completed his first semester as a professor…
These past couple of months have had me in a whirlwind, working non-stop and having to be on top of kid’s activities left and right. I am so glad we are in exam time for the older two and that school is almost over for the younger. But the work keeps pouring in. (For this…
Each Ash Wednesday we hear the Prophet Joel remind us to “rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord your God.” Today, the word “rend” caught my attention. (Rend, meaning “to tear apart (violently); rip in two” according to the Oxford Dictionary). We know that Joel is referencing the traditional Old Testament…