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Counting Our Blessings - Blessed Is She

Counting Our Blessings

“But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.” // Matthew 13:16 We shuffled into the pew as quietly as possible and sat near a...
July 26, 2023
Rich in Him - Blessed Is She

Rich in Him

We are treated . . . as having nothing and yet possessing all things. // 2 Corinthians 6:8-10 I walked into the bare room, devoid of any color or decorations....
June 18, 2023
Gifts Poured Out Extravagantly - Blessed Is She

Gifts Poured Out Extravagantly

“He does not ration his gift of the Spirit.” // John 3:34 My then-fiancé was curious: what does it mean to be “charismatic”? All he could imagine were some weird...
April 19, 2023

The Salt Makes Us Thirsty

“You are the salt of the earth.” // Matthew 5:13 I was on a four-day pilgrimage to a Marian shrine, and it was glorious: the pain, the satisfaction, the sweat,...
February 05, 2023
The Salt Makes Us Thirsty - Blessed Is She

The Salt Makes Us Thirsty

“You are the salt of the earth.” // Matthew 5:13 I was on a four-day pilgrimage to a Marian shrine, and it was glorious: the pain, the satisfaction, the sweat,...
February 04, 2023
Start to Live Again - Blessed Is She

Start to Live Again

God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name by having served and continuing to serve the holy ones. //...
January 17, 2023
On Our Lady's Lap - Blessed Is She

On Our Lady's Lap

Nay rather, I have stilled and quieted my soul like a weaned child. Like a weaned child on its mother’s lap, so is my soul within me. // Psalm 131:2*...
December 09, 2022
Where's My Miracle? - Blessed Is She

Where's My Miracle?

“Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith.” // Matthew 8:10 *trigger warning of miscarriage* I prayed over my belly through the tears...
November 28, 2022
Love Purified - Blessed Is She

Love Purified

I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you by the grace of Christ for a different gospel (not that there is another). // Galatians...
October 03, 2022
Following Him Radically - Blessed Is She

Following Him Radically

Then he said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ // Luke 9:20 “So, religion is really important to you and your husband?” he asked. We had...
September 23, 2022
Learn to Serve - Blessed Is She

Learn to Serve

“Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be.” // John 12:26 “Why can’t Daddy sit with us during Mass like everybody else’s...
August 10, 2022
Never Abandoned, Always Loved - Blessed Is She

Never Abandoned, Always Loved

For in you the orphan finds compassion. // Hosea 14:3 My friend walked me to the back of the hospital to a small room with blue walls. There I met...
July 08, 2022