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Snicky Snacks and the Presence of God - Blessed Is She

Snicky Snacks and the Presence of God

I don't know about you, but I am a firm believer that good snacks are a necessary part of a road trip. When planning a road trip, I am always...
July 17, 2021
Mother Teresa, Widows, and Giving All We Have - Blessed Is She

Mother Teresa, Widows, and Giving All We Have

One of my earliest memories as a little girl was watching a documentary on the work of Mother Teresa from the 1970s in my grandma's living room. I was captured...
June 05, 2021
Purple & Paying Attention - Blessed Is She

Purple & Paying Attention

What was your favorite color as a little girl? That is easy for me. It was, and remained for a long time, purple. When I was seven, my parents bought...
May 10, 2021
Shark Fears & Boat Rides with Jesus - Blessed Is She

Shark Fears & Boat Rides with Jesus

The first (and only!) time I saw the movie Jaws, I completely freaked out. A giant killer shark with eerie background music; that was enough to make any of us...
April 17, 2021
Kitchen Heart-to-Heart Chats & Spirit Testing 101 - Blessed Is She

Kitchen Heart-to-Heart Chats & Spirit Testing 101

I stood in the kitchen of a friend on a rainy October night, fighting back tears. I was making a decision in freedom on whether to end a year-long relationship....
January 04, 2021
Bring Peace and Justice - Blessed Is She

Bring Peace and Justice

From the time I was a little girl, I had an innate sense of justice, when things were right or wrong. I would quickly point out if something was fair...
December 01, 2020
Following Jesus Has a Cost - Blessed Is She

Following Jesus Has a Cost

Lent 2019 proved to be one of the most trying, difficult Lenten seasons of my adult life. Fresh off a dating break-up, I was working through big feelings and loneliness....
November 04, 2020
Calling, Chains, and Fruit - Blessed Is She

Calling, Chains, and Fruit

Whenever I hear readings from the Pauline Letters, I think of a certain graduate school professor I had, Father Cassidy. He was known for teaching on the Pauline Letters. A...
October 23, 2020
Stop Grasping and Start Kingdom Living - Blessed Is She

Stop Grasping and Start Kingdom Living

For most of my growing-up years into my late twenties, I believed I would "live my best life" when I had all the things I hoped for. You know what...
July 09, 2020
Oxen Pulling & Farming with Jesus - Blessed Is She

Oxen Pulling & Farming with Jesus

About two years ago, I was working through some life frustration and loneliness. In the quiet of prayer, God gave me an image to sit with. Two oxen were pulling...
June 19, 2020