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When Did You Learn to Ride Your Bike? - Blessed Is She

When Did You Learn to Ride Your Bike?

I didn’t learn how to ride a bike until I was nine years old. One of the bones in my ankle developed slightly crooked, which resulted in extremely poor coordination....
October 12, 2018
Never Feel Left Out Again - Blessed Is She

Never Feel Left Out Again

"Ask and you will receive." Do you need a few moments to yourself? Do you need a good night's sleep? Do you need to get some exercise? Do you need...
October 11, 2018
Teach Us to Pray - Blessed Is She

Teach Us to Pray

Lord, teach us to pray. To follow Your lead. To find a place where we can listen, away from all the voices that aren’t Yours. To give glory to God...
October 10, 2018
Wishing to be Seen, Known, and Loved - Blessed Is She

Wishing to be Seen, Known, and Loved

I'm a recovering productivity superwoman. "Doing" used to be second-nature to me while "being?"—not so much. Because of that, vulnerability and intimacy used to be more difficult than they are...
October 09, 2018
Losing Your Gospel Bit by Bit - Blessed Is She

Losing Your Gospel Bit by Bit

It's hard being a Christian. In every time, in every place, it's hard. It's almost surreal to think that the early Christians who were ministered to by the Apostles themselves...
October 08, 2018
Do You Know You're Unworthily Worthy? - Blessed Is She

Do You Know You're Unworthily Worthy?

This morning, I took a walk on the beach with my son. When I asked him if I could walk down to the water with him, he cheerfully responded, “Sure!”...
October 07, 2018
Did You Feel Delivered? - Blessed Is She

Did You Feel Delivered?

Earlier this year, I felt spiritually and physically encompassed by an unprecedented season of darkness. Most of my weeks were marked by anxiety-ridden dreams and long periods of exhaustion. Gripped...
October 06, 2018
Reliance and Rebuilding - Blessed Is She

Reliance and Rebuilding

Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, one of Catholicism’s greatest Saints, reformers, and spiritual fathers. Famously, one day while Francis was praying in his local church,...
October 04, 2018
Follow Me When You Feel Torn - Blessed Is She

Follow Me When You Feel Torn

As the child of divorced parents and having to constantly travel back and forth between my mom's house and my dad's, growing up I felt that the foxes and birds...
October 03, 2018
Reaching Out in the Uncomfortable - Blessed Is She

Reaching Out in the Uncomfortable

I can't bring myself to fully read the Book of Job. I’m familiar with the basics of the story and have heard it proclaimed at Mass but it's so hard...
October 02, 2018
Listening and Becoming the Least - Blessed Is She

Listening and Becoming the Least

When we were kids, my brother and I constantly were whining to our mom about fairness. He had a bigger piece! Or Mom, you didn’t listen to both sides of...
October 01, 2018
Just Keep Your Eyes on Me - Blessed Is She

Just Keep Your Eyes on Me

A divided heart. How easy it is to let my eyes wander toward those around me, toward what is not mine, toward all which I seemingly lack. How easy it...
September 30, 2018