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Offering Love to the Suffering
“Well, you see, I’m divorced.” The explanation was said to a small group of women, all of us new to this particular parish ministry and all of us hoping to...
Letter from Your Guardian Angel
My Beloved, Never forget that you exist within a physical and spiritual world. You are made in the image and likeness of God—your body and soul radiate immense beauty. As...
My Year of Hearts
Every year, I ask the Lord for a word of the year, and this year the Lord put very clearly on my heart: it would be my year of "hearts."...
Master of the Harvest
The green grass was soft under my bare feet, and the hot sun beat down on my tanned arms and back. My parents were several rows deep in our garden’s...
Our Friends, the Angels
“Just ignore her talk about angels and everything. She is sort of weird.” That is the only comment about angels I remember hearing as a child; I sort of lumped...
Suffering and Beauty Together
My husband stood in the yard. A whispered prayer fell from his lips as he looked at the sunset. He was pleading with the Lord. Pleading with the Lord beneath...
A Heart for the Least Among Us
I still remember the first time I joined my mother’s missionary group in the Dominican Republic. After full days of preaching, visiting the sick, and spending time with children at...
Your Name Is on the List
One of the enemy's favorite lies to tell us—especially women—is that we are merely tolerated. We may have a few acquaintances and people at church who are nice to us,...
Not the End of the Story
My household consists of my patient and kind husband, my two basketball-playing and computer-loving sons, and one loyal rescue dog. I’m grateful every day for every one of them. My...
Next Step: Intentional Prayer
Take courage, sister. There is nothing to fear. I can easily think of experiences in my life in which I stood on the brink of “the next step” in life....
Not-So-Straight Priorities
Just last week I wrote out my plan for the next few days. Putting pencil to hot pink copy paper, I took stock of wake-up, breakfast, and workout times, important...
Exalt in His Love
Shortly after graduating college, I felt a tug from the Spirit to ask my new parish if I could start a praise and worship adoration community for the young adults....
