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Good Friday // Feel the Nails - Blessed Is She

Good Friday // Feel the Nails

Good Friday...the day that started it all...our salvation and our great hope that one day we will be with Christ again in Heaven. How odd is it that every Good...
Weekly Wallpaper // 3 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 3

This weekly wallpaper is so incredibly beautiful from Erica of Be a Heart. It is inspired by our Lenten Journal, Only One Thing. Let's eliminate the noise and rest in...
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // OBEDIENCE - Blessed Is She

#BISsisterhood Link-Up // OBEDIENCE

Today we are talking about OBEDIENCE. "I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be done unto me according to your word." Mary's unwavering obedience to God in carrying...
Hang In There - Blessed Is She

Hang In There

In 2012, if you began preparing for Total Consecration on Ash Wednesday, you would end up making your consecration on the feast of the Annunciation. In 2012, I had never...
Weekly Wallpaper // 2 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 2

This weekly wallpaper is so incredibly beautiful from Erica of Be a Heart. It comes from Psalm 51:12 - A clean heart create for me, God; renew within me a...
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // TRUST - Blessed Is She

#BISsisterhood Link-Up // TRUST

Today we are talking about TRUST. St. Joseph, whom we celebrate today, was a man of great faith and trust in the providence of God. We can look to him...
Tend to Your Bridges - Blessed Is She

Tend to Your Bridges

I've figured out that the key to living the life God has called me to live is believing everything He has to say about me. It requires me to believe...
Weekly Wallpaper - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper

This week's beautiful wallpaper for your phone and desktop were created by the wonderful Erica Tighe of Be a Heart. The verse is from today's Gospel from John 3:16. Such...
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // RECONCILIATION - Blessed Is She

#BISsisterhood Link-Up // RECONCILIATION

Today we are talking about RECONCILIATION. Lent is a perfect time to work on reconciliation. Most importantly, we achieve it with God in the sacrament of Reconciliation, where we are...
The Proper Perspective - Blessed Is She

The Proper Perspective

Is there anything more beautiful than shimmering fresh snow on a sunny morning? I thought to myself. My next thought fast-forwards to Spring and an amazing thing I learned about...
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // SACRIFICE - Blessed Is She

#BISsisterhood Link-Up // SACRIFICE

Today we are talking about SACRIFICE. "More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope." (Romans 5: 3-4)...
On Suffering - Blessed Is She

On Suffering

The world feels so heavy right now. People, families, nations. Sickness, death, evil that reaches beyond all restraint. Each of them adding weight as the world bows under the heaviness...