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Turn It into Love, My Friend
My day is filled with countless opportunities for sacrifice, for prayer, and for love. It is also filled with opportunities for grumbling and pessimism, self-pity and regret. The funny thing...
Less is More
More. It’s a dirty word for me. I suppose it came to be so from knowing so well the weighty burden of less. “Less is more,” they say. But I...
Cultivating Fertile Soil in Your Soul
Gardening season is in full swing where I live. That means many hours spent outside ripping out weeds, amending soil, and furrowing rows to begin the many months process of...
Let Go and Grow
There are times when I feel like a circus performer, tossing balls in the air and hoping I don’t drop any of the glass ones . . . or walking...
Struck Down But Not Destroyed
The last few days have been rough. Not for myself, but for those around me. So many of my friends are carrying heavy crosses, but do you know what’s the...
You Are Not Your Past
“Whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) Today is the feast day of Saint Mary...
Follow Him or Following Me, Myself, and I?
My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord, I know them, and they follow me. (John 10:27) A painting hung in the school corridor of my first grade building. The...
Pencil in Some Rest
“Time for la sieste!” The lilting French voice floated to me through the stairwell. “Okay, just a minute!” I called back in my best French, eyeing the stack of paper...
Be a Child in God's Love
God calls Moses by name in the First Reading today. Have you heard Him call you by name today? Moses answered, “Here I am.” (Exodus 3:4) Have you given this...
Mighty Deeds in Our Midst
Recently, I've received some very significant healing in my life. It's not yet full or complete in its entirety, but it is great nonetheless. It is a kind of healing...
Losing My Life
What is it about the Gospel message that makes us want to fight it? Jesus knew that His message, His call to self-sacrifice, to a life of holiness would bring...
Seeing and Hearing
When spring came, Saturdays became family yard work and gardening days at Casa de la Breen. As a child, I HATED them. I had the worst attitude. I would endlessly...
