Letting Go of What Others Think
Sometimes I struggle with fear. As much as I tell myself I do not care what others think, I find myself measuring my worth based on their opinions (or the...
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For the Greater Glory of God
Sometimes when I seek to share the Lord’s message with others, I work too hard trying to find just the right words, just the right way, just the right time....
Emotional Self-Discipline
The reading today is beautiful in its expression of how God uses discipline as a loving way to help us be better. Just as our parents set boundaries and discipline...
Do Not Give Up
Have you seen the movie "Unbroken" yet? My husband and I saw it shortly after Christmas, and we were incredibly touched by the story of Louis Zamperini's life. In the...
Obedience to God's Law
The Presentation of Our Lord, traditionally known as the Purification of Our Lady or Candlemas, is the traditional end of the Christmas season. Mary has waited the required 40 days...
Praise His Name
“O come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!” I absolutely love today’s Psalm. As a singer from my...
Testing Our Faith in the Storm of Life
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen . . . By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to...
The Word. The Seed.
Did anyone else just do a fist pump when you read today’s readings? When I was in high school, I finally read the Word. Of course, I had heard the...
We Become the Lamp
Today’s Gospel gives us a glimpse of what happens when we let God’s light shine through us. When I converted nine years ago, God slowly worked on my heart and...
Forgive. Forget. Party On.
In today's First Reading it talks about Christ's ultimate sacrifice for us and God's amazing forgiveness for us and our sins. Forgiveness is a tall order and sometimes the hardest...
A New Song
Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin. Yikes. This is serious stuff in Saint Mark’s Gospel today. It’s the kind of...
Zealous for the Lord
If nothing else, these men that followed Jesus had a zeal for Him that is hard to match. Jonah, in the First Reading, inspires the city of Nineveh to convert...
