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What's Your Role in the Circumstances?
Did he just honk at me? I glanced over my shoulder to see a middle-aged man waving his hands impatiently and pointing at my husband’s truck. I took a deep...
Receive His Tender Love
Last summer felt like a whirlwind. After months of navigating the wildly hot housing market in our area, the Lord blessed us with an accepted offer on our first house....
A Harsh Lesson about Judging Others
I met him at a concert. I immediately noticed his dark hair, dark eyes, and alluring smile. We became friends and as we got to know each other better, he...
Clean My Grimy Heart
During my high school years, I developed the unhealthy habits of being judgmental towards others and gossiping. During this period, I also started to rebuild my faith, which was ironic...
Too Much and Not Enough
As I sat on the worn couch in the student lounge, my cheeks became red and I felt the others’ eyes boring holes into the back of my head. As...
The Mystery of Salvation over Root Beer
"Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God" (Mark 10:26-27). I...
Believe in the Blessing
I was young, naïve, a little too overconfident in my virtue. One night, I’m ashamed to admit, I was tempted to have a one-night stand. This was wildly out of...
God's Hand, Holy Spirit's Finger, and My Wild Devotion
Perhaps it began in childhood, while singing “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.” Maybe it grew during long homilies at my parish when I studied the large mounted...
Shifting from Imperfection
I have nearly died three times in my life. I was almost aborted, experienced a break-in, and survived a rollover car crash. I only became aware of the responsibility I...
Pass the Popcorn, Jonah
I am a modern day Jonah. Before you spit out your morning drink, sputtering about how ridiculous a comparison that is, hear me out. Jonah, after ranting and complaining to...
Choose Him in Everything
The warm wind blew her silver hair across her face, a beautiful face with dark deep-set eyes and a map of wrinkles. Wrinkles that told the story of her ninety...
Bearing His Sacred Wounds
The scars glared back at me from the mirror, and I remembered how they had once been open wounds in my breasts, oozing puss from idiopathic granulomatous mastitis. During my...
