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Choosy Angels Choose God
When Mike and I were taking our Pre-Cana classes, we suddenly found things getting real. We had both heard of Natural Family Planning, but it hadn’t dawned on us until...
Empty Promises Fulfilled in Him Alone
To be quite honest, I struggle with discouragement. I’m not a complainer or a pessimist, but I am a realist, and there are times when my personal life and ministry,...
Morning Dates with the Word
It’s Wednesday. At our home there will be the hustle of breakfast, clothes, teeth, hair, shoes, book bags, pile in the car, drive across town, car line, pre-school drop off,...
In Good Company
I’ve been open about this before, and maybe it’s a tired old story, but I struggle a lot with doubt and dryness in my spiritual life. It can seem odd...
Hidden Lights
I didn’t want to be seen. My wet hair hung bedraggled around my makeup-less face—sporting a fresh crop of glaring blemishes—and my dark circles could have passed for a set...
Wild, Uncontrollable Grace
Today is the feast day of Saint Padre Pio. Among my Catholic friends, devotion to this modern Italian saint is bountiful. Constantly, I hear sweet bon mots from his teachings...
Sow Imperfectly
My husband jokes that I have a black thumb, because every time I try to grow an herb, it dies. I plant flower seeds and they don’t grow, or they...
Painful Truth of the Mirror
STOP SCREAMING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. (Picture me screaming.) It was one of those days. Everyone was moody and tired and defiant. The four-year-old was whining . . ....
Whys and Hows of Living Out Our Faith
My earliest memories of faith playing a role in my life harken back to being tucked into bed as a toddler, hearing my dad sing me another verse of "Jesus...
An Impossible Standard?
The world feels so loud lately. If we can’t prove someone else wrong through superior reasoning, can we do it through superior volume or more exclamation points? Even Christians are...
You Matter Here
I felt it tear. As my feet met the hardwood floor, the pain reverberated throughout my body like a tidal wave. But the crowd! The crowd was watching. They were...
Healing in the Eucharist
In today’s Gospel, we hear the words we repeat at every Mass just before receiving Communion. “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only...
