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Know Your King - Blessed Is She

Know Your King

It’s time to shift gears! We have a King, and He is coming! Who is this King? This is a King whose dominion is everlasting. This is a King who...
December 01, 2017
Giving and Receiving in a Time of Crosses - Blessed Is She

Giving and Receiving in a Time of Crosses

“I can see you are hurting,” she said as she looked into my eyes brimming with tears. Then with a hug that enfolded all my worries in a warm assurance...
November 30, 2017
Surrender Your Fears to Him - Blessed Is She

Surrender Your Fears to Him

Fear. It comes in many shapes and sizes, sometimes fleeting, in other moments, crippling. Personally? I fear someone I love will die unexpectedly. I fear suffering another miscarriage. I fear...
November 28, 2017
Giving From Your Deepest Place - Blessed Is She

Giving From Your Deepest Place

I am the rich man, having more than I could ever possibly need. What a help to the temple I am, because I have so much money, and I can...
November 27, 2017
Living a Merciful Life - Blessed Is She

Living a Merciful Life

Salty tears rained down my face as I fell to the ground on my knees. It was late and I could hear my sister softly breathing as she slept on...
November 26, 2017
An Unfathomable Joy Awaits - Blessed Is She

An Unfathomable Joy Awaits

There are dozens of people in my life that make my existence so full and so joy-filled. My parents will drop everything they are doing to help us with babysitting...
November 25, 2017
The Gift of Peace in the Temple - Blessed Is She

The Gift of Peace in the Temple

Imagine a painting showing an ancient temple. There are tables overturned, and on the floor coins are scattered. There are unused animals for sacrifice heaped in one corner and what...
November 24, 2017
We Owe Him Everything - Blessed Is She

We Owe Him Everything

We’d taken a rare evening away from our first-born to catch the opening night of the film "The Passion of the Christ" with friends from church. Of course I knew...
November 23, 2017
How Do We Accept the Undesirable in Our Lives - Blessed Is She

How Do We Accept the Undesirable in Our Lives

Today is the Feast of Saint Cecilia, who—providentially—also happens to be my confirmation Saint. I chose her as an idealistic 8th-grader for her pretty name and patronage of musicians, as...
November 22, 2017
Losing Me and You in Boxes - Blessed Is She

Losing Me and You in Boxes

I’m quite skillful at filling boxes. Somewhere between the introduction and the conclusion of a conversation, I have already stuffed the appropriate box. Because there are so many boxes in...
November 21, 2017
We Are the Beggar - Blessed Is She

We Are the Beggar

A few weeks ago, I was approached in a coffee shop by a woman who had noticed the Scripture verse on the front of my t-shirt and felt prompted to...
November 20, 2017
Live in the Light of the Present Moment - Blessed Is She

Live in the Light of the Present Moment

Each time I have read of someone’s encounter with Saint Pope John Paul II, there is a thread that weaves through each of them. They speak of his uncanny ability...
November 19, 2017