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Weekly Wallpaper // 94 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 94

Tara never disappoints us with the beauty that she creates! Today she made your free downloadable wallpaper with Psalm 119:18 // "Open my eyes that I may consider the wonders...
Why You Should Get Away With Your Spouse and How To Actually Do It - Blessed Is She

Why You Should Get Away With Your Spouse and How To Actually Do It

After navigating the early years of parenting, our family has solidly entered middle-childhood. Although the frustrations of potty-training and sleepless nights have shifted to arguments over bedtimes and screen time,...
10 Ways to Hygge as a Catholic - Blessed Is She

10 Ways to Hygge as a Catholic

We are knee-deep in winter. Some of you may literally be knee-deep in winter’s white wonder. But the bright, holly jolly tidings of the Christmas season have completed their cycle...
Ladies, You Are Beautiful - Blessed Is She

Ladies, You Are Beautiful

I read quite the post recently, from a woman who asserted that women's ministries tell women too often that they are beautiful. Is this a thing? It must be a...
Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 31 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 31

Here we are, at the end of January. The month has been at turns fruitful, trying, and hopeful for me. We have another month to pray in this Ordinary Time...
5 Myths About Catholic Schools - Blessed Is She

5 Myths About Catholic Schools

It’s Catholic Schools Week, so I pray you’ll indulge me. We’ve been Catholic school parents for more than a decade and with five kids currently enrolled, high school to kinder,...
Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 30 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 30

Tomorrow is the end of the month. Today gives us the chance to flood each other's days with prayers as we approach the end of this journey together. Lift up...
Weekly Wallpaper // 93 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 93

Today we are presented with the Beatitudes in the gospel. What a perfect time for us to be reminded of what Jesus came to the earth to proclaim. It's a...
Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 29 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 29

Maybe this month isn't going as planned. Maybe, like me, you are tired and worried about many things, and overwhelmed. Maybe you didn't do the prayer pledge every day. Maybe...
Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 28 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 28

Today is St. Thomas Aquinas's feast day, a saint who is very important to many, many people in the Church. Each saint's specific patronages, devotionals, or personal stories can connect...

Happy Birthday to Me

Every year, writer Heather Renshaw celebrates the gift of life in a special way. We hope her entry encourages you to celebrate the gift of your life. Today I celebrate...
Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 27 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 27

By nature, I am a person who likes answers. I like to know the how and why of things, the plan, the directions. I appreciate situations in which I am...