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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Before I Go Any Further
Instinctively, I reach for the hand but then pull back, remembering all of my stuff. I am convinced that whoever the voice belongs to can’t possibly see it, because if he did, he definitely wouldn’t be so eager to invite me closer. He can’t see the mess I am, of this I am certain. “What…
Dedicated to Pope Francis on his Installation
So, having watched some of the mass and witnessed some of the transformation of people in the crowd and reading some of the accounts this is what I am feeling at this moment. MY prayer is that it stay that way, I would so love to love and have total respect and honor the Pastor…

The Ride — Repost– In Praise of Riders
This is a story about my community. http://charleyproject.org/cases/w/wood_sara.html It tells the details. Twenty years later, I still can feel the terror that took over the hearts of our community. Though I didn’t know her or the family, my brother and his family live one house away from the church where her father was Pastor. She was kidnapped about…
Being People of Yes!
http://www.romereports.com/palio/pope-francis-asks-that-church-be-joyful-and-positive-community-english-9934.html#.UYYlr0nD_wpA friend posted this video on Facebook. I can’t help but think how God is answering prayers with this simple approach of love. “When we become a community of who says yes instead of no…” imagine what can flow out of that.Today is First Communion at our church, parents and children have said “yes” to…
Release
“Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith” Mt. 8:10 There were so many directions that I could have gone with this reading given the current hijacking of the mission of Jesus Christ. But, honestly, I just don’t want to. We need a break from that. Yes, we…
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How beautiful and how absolutely true. Thank you for the poem and for the picture of the woods. The woods is one of my favourite places and I love to take my grandchildren walking in the woods as it seems that there they like to talk about God. Blessings and prayers.