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One Day In His Courts

One Day In His Courts

Lent starts February 14, and so does the RESCUED Blessed is She Lent devotional. This year, you’ll be receiving an excerpt from the Lent devotional every day in your inbox (in...
February 05, 2024
Taking the Lowest Place

Taking the Lowest Place

“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted." // Luke 14:11 There are two types of people: the ones who want to...
November 03, 2023
God's Green Thumb

God's Green Thumb

“Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” // 2 Corinthians 9:6 I always thought I had a bit of a “brown thumb.”...
August 09, 2023
Finding His Will in Our Wandering

Finding His Will in Our Wandering

“Have you eaten from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat?” // Genesis 3:11 “But whyyyyyyy do I have to wear white socks? Why can’t I wear...
May 28, 2023
Our Holy Father

Our Holy Father

He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name . . . .” // Luke 11:2 It’s the third prayer I learned how to pray, after...
October 05, 2022
Bring Yourself and That’s Enough

Bring Yourself and That’s Enough

With what shall I come before the Lord? // Micah 6:6 We rescued the statue from the clearance pile, Jesus and His Sacred Heart tossed among the concrete turtles and...
July 18, 2022
Bearing Fruit

Bearing Fruit

"It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain." // John 15:16 I shouldn’t have been...
May 14, 2022
Laboring for the Ones He Loves

Laboring for the Ones He Loves

“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few.” // Luke 10:2 All my cousin wanted was a pumpkin pie, and there I was, three days before Christmas, frantically running...
December 06, 2021
Honored by Him

Honored by Him

Dishes had been washed, laundry folded, kitchen cleaned, house tidied, all after a long day of work. I just wanted watch an episode of some stupid sitcom before going to...
July 30, 2021
Changed By His Voice

Changed By His Voice

It was always a treat to go to the mall with my mom. Walking to store after store, stopping for a hot pretzel at Auntie Anne’s, maybe picking up Chick-Fil-A...
April 27, 2021
Best Flowers, Best Oil, Best Friend

Best Flowers, Best Oil, Best Friend

My dad sends my mom flowers every other week. The arrangements are simple, a dozen roses, some daisies, or her favorite, hydrangeas. But every other week, usually on Monday or...
March 29, 2021
We Go Last

We Go Last

My sense of justice was quite strong as a kid, which is why in the third grade I reminded my teacher that the boys had left the classroom first for...
August 18, 2020