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.
“How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those that find it are few” Matthew 7:14I don’t know about you, but this passage does not make me feel warm and fuzzy. It actually makes me think, “Yikes! I guess I’m out of luck!” But I wonder what Jesus really meant….
This is one of my favorite quotes from Stephen Colbert because it exposes the hypocrisy of the way we think as a self proclaimed “Christian” nation. I am also linking the clip from his show the other night with Fr. Tom Reese from Georgetown University that talks about the budget being a moral document. In…
With it being Memorial Day weekend (in America), I am sure that most people won’t be thinking about Pentecost this Sunday. But I wish they would since it really is such an important moment in all of our Catholic lives. Not only is it the birthday of the church, but most importantly it is when…
A friend of mine is going through a very difficult time, a life changing time. She has a mentally disabled brother who has been diagnosed with leukemia and is in his last days. He is not sure what is really happening but knows that he is going to die and is afraid he won’t go…
I feel the need to share this blogpost from Patheos Catholic. I hits so close to home with my own feelings for the institutional church. This is the continuous struggle of women in the church but as the author says “I love the church,” Like her, it has given me so much, most importantly, my…