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A Love That Gives - Blessed Is She

A Love That Gives

“Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” // Matthew 20:28 As a...
July 24, 2023
Tiny Crosses - Blessed Is She

Tiny Crosses

For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. // Matthew 6:21 I’ve often felt that mothers have it easy. In some ways, no . . . the...
June 22, 2023
Bread of Life - Blessed Is She

Bread of Life

"I am the bread of life." // John 6:48 I have a very vivid memory of struggling to get to daily Mass one particular morning. At the time I was...
May 05, 2022
Root & Grow - Blessed Is She

Root & Grow

Of all the things I'm really bad at there is one that strikes me as the most problematic. I am bad at stopping. Now, I can lounge anytime day or...
July 21, 2021
To Love Little Is Our Call - Blessed Is She

To Love Little Is Our Call

I'm often looking for opportunities to love big. You know—random acts of kindness, a grand gesture, a real measure of sacrifice. If Our Lord tells us the greatest of all...
June 03, 2021
The Ultimate Teacher of Love - Blessed Is She

The Ultimate Teacher of Love

I cannot fathom a scene that reveals any more deeply the profound respect Our Lord has for our freedom than the scene of Judas at the table at Passover. Jesus...
March 31, 2021
That I May See - Blessed Is She

That I May See

The ways I see Jesus are not the ways that many saw Him, but the way Jesus sees me is no different. Some were approached on the road, some met...
September 29, 2020
Cooperate as the Leaven & Seed - Blessed Is She

Cooperate as the Leaven & Seed

I'd like to be the type of woman who has a real rhythm to her home-keeping. Rising, praying, preparing meals, and cleaning all in a fashion that remains steady through...
July 27, 2020
Asking Why in the Storm - Blessed Is She

Asking Why in the Storm

"I trust in the LORD; my soul trusts in his word" (Psalm 130:5). This year has been strange to say the least. After eight uneventful pregnancies, I lost two babies...
June 30, 2020
Clarity, Fishing, and Our Hearts - Blessed Is She

Clarity, Fishing, and Our Hearts

When Jesus called the disciples it was so clear, wasn’t it? Come, He said, Come and follow Me. They saw His face, they heard the tone of His voice, and...
January 13, 2020