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Did You Feel Delivered? - Blessed Is She

Did You Feel Delivered?

Earlier this year, I felt spiritually and physically encompassed by an unprecedented season of darkness. Most of my weeks were marked by anxiety-ridden dreams and long periods of exhaustion. Gripped...
October 06, 2018
Reliance and Rebuilding - Blessed Is She

Reliance and Rebuilding

Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, one of Catholicism’s greatest Saints, reformers, and spiritual fathers. Famously, one day while Francis was praying in his local church,...
October 04, 2018
Follow Me When You Feel Torn - Blessed Is She

Follow Me When You Feel Torn

As the child of divorced parents and having to constantly travel back and forth between my mom's house and my dad's, growing up I felt that the foxes and birds...
October 03, 2018
Reaching Out in the Uncomfortable - Blessed Is She

Reaching Out in the Uncomfortable

I can't bring myself to fully read the Book of Job. I’m familiar with the basics of the story and have heard it proclaimed at Mass but it's so hard...
October 02, 2018
Listening and Becoming the Least - Blessed Is She

Listening and Becoming the Least

When we were kids, my brother and I constantly were whining to our mom about fairness. He had a bigger piece! Or Mom, you didn’t listen to both sides of...
October 01, 2018
Just Keep Your Eyes on Me - Blessed Is She

Just Keep Your Eyes on Me

A divided heart. How easy it is to let my eyes wander toward those around me, toward what is not mine, toward all which I seemingly lack. How easy it...
September 30, 2018
Choosy Angels Choose God - Blessed Is She

Choosy Angels Choose God

When Mike and I were taking our Pre-Cana classes, we suddenly found things getting real. We had both heard of Natural Family Planning, but it hadn’t dawned on us until...
September 29, 2018
In Heaven's Time - Blessed Is She

In Heaven's Time

Throughout my walk with the Lord, women have shared with me that the perfect man will come along right when I am not looking for him, or that Mr. Right...
September 28, 2018
Empty Promises Fulfilled in Him Alone - Blessed Is She

Empty Promises Fulfilled in Him Alone

To be quite honest, I struggle with discouragement. I’m not a complainer or a pessimist, but I am a realist, and there are times when my personal life and ministry,...
September 27, 2018
Morning Dates with the Word - Blessed Is She

Morning Dates with the Word

It’s Wednesday. At our home there will be the hustle of breakfast, clothes, teeth, hair, shoes, book bags, pile in the car, drive across town, car line, pre-school drop off,...
September 26, 2018
In Good Company - Blessed Is She

In Good Company

I’ve been open about this before, and maybe it’s a tired old story, but I struggle a lot with doubt and dryness in my spiritual life. It can seem odd...
September 25, 2018
Hidden Lights - Blessed Is She

Hidden Lights

I didn’t want to be seen. My wet hair hung bedraggled around my makeup-less face—sporting a fresh crop of glaring blemishes—and my dark circles could have passed for a set...
September 24, 2018