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What's Your Role in the Circumstances? - Blessed Is She

What's Your Role in the Circumstances?

Did he just honk at me? I glanced over my shoulder to see a middle-aged man waving his hands impatiently and pointing at my husband’s truck. I took a deep...
October 15, 2021
Receive His Tender Love - Blessed Is She

Receive His Tender Love

Last summer felt like a whirlwind. After months of navigating the wildly hot housing market in our area, the Lord blessed us with an accepted offer on our first house....
October 14, 2021
A Harsh Lesson about Judging Others - Blessed Is She

A Harsh Lesson about Judging Others

I met him at a concert. I immediately noticed his dark hair, dark eyes, and alluring smile. We became friends and as we got to know each other better, he...
October 13, 2021
Clean My Grimy Heart - Blessed Is She

Clean My Grimy Heart

During my high school years, I developed the unhealthy habits of being judgmental towards others and gossiping. During this period, I also started to rebuild my faith, which was ironic...
October 12, 2021
Too Much and Not Enough - Blessed Is She

Too Much and Not Enough

As I sat on the worn couch in the student lounge, my cheeks became red and I felt the others’ eyes boring holes into the back of my head. As...
October 11, 2021
The Mystery of Salvation over Root Beer - Blessed Is She

The Mystery of Salvation over Root Beer

"Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God" (Mark 10:26-27). I...
October 10, 2021
Believe in the Blessing - Blessed Is She

Believe in the Blessing

I was young, naïve, a little too overconfident in my virtue. One night, I’m ashamed to admit, I was tempted to have a one-night stand. This was wildly out of...
October 09, 2021
God's Hand, Holy Spirit's Finger, and My Wild Devotion - Blessed Is She

God's Hand, Holy Spirit's Finger, and My Wild Devotion

Perhaps it began in childhood, while singing “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.” Maybe it grew during long homilies at my parish when I studied the large mounted...
October 08, 2021
Shifting from Imperfection - Blessed Is She

Shifting from Imperfection

I have nearly died three times in my life. I was almost aborted, experienced a break-in, and survived a rollover car crash. I only became aware of the responsibility I...
October 07, 2021
Pass the Popcorn, Jonah - Blessed Is She

Pass the Popcorn, Jonah

I am a modern day Jonah. Before you spit out your morning drink, sputtering about how ridiculous a comparison that is, hear me out. Jonah, after ranting and complaining to...
October 06, 2021
Choose Him in Everything - Blessed Is She

Choose Him in Everything

The warm wind blew her silver hair across her face, a beautiful face with dark deep-set eyes and a map of wrinkles. Wrinkles that told the story of her ninety...
October 05, 2021
Bearing His Sacred Wounds - Blessed Is She

Bearing His Sacred Wounds

The scars glared back at me from the mirror, and I remembered how they had once been open wounds in my breasts, oozing puss from idiopathic granulomatous mastitis. During my...
October 04, 2021