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Inexhaustible Generosity
“It’ll never happen,” I’d think to myself as the negative test rested firmly in my hand. Because I knew before I could look. That lonely line danced across any sliver...
Parenting Our Children to Win the Battle
Nothing fills me with more anxiety than contemplating the eventual adolescence and early adulthood of my five children. I remember my own high school antics and college lunacy with a...
Where is Your Poverty?
Sometimes, poverty doesn’t look like people reaching their hands out asking for a meal. Sometimes, poverty is something that resides deep in the heart. In today’s Gospel, Jesus cautions "woe"...
A New Little One in the Garden
Today marks the due date of my fourth niece. Depending on when this little one actually chooses to arrive, my brother and sister-in-law are either awaiting her birth in great...
Our Only Good
The movie Titanic came out when I was in the sixth grade, and I was the only one of my friends who was not allowed to watch it. My parents...
Silence Those Inner Critics
As I stared in the mirror, tears streaming down my face, I hated what I was seeing. There I was, two months postpartum with a milk-stained nursing tank top, stretch...
Looking Behind the Resolutions at the Intention
Here we are, one month and a half into the new year. At the beginning of each year, I picture where I want to be at the end of the...
The Gift of Creation
I’m a maker by nature. I love to take raw materials or half-baked ideas and bring them fully into existence. When I am watching a movie, you’ll find me knitting....
Throwing Elbows and Hoping to Be Healed
Today’s feast might make some of us a bit squirmy. The beautiful feast of Our Lady of Lourdes is often marked with meditations on the miraculous healing accomplished by Christ,...
So Lovable, So Valuable
There I sat: layers of warm clothing, a sloppy ponytail, a mermaid blanket on my lap, and a sick bucket in my hands. My husband had just tucked in the...
Walking With Those Who Suffer
I remember when I first looked, really looked, at Psalm 23. It was the day of the 2013 Boston marathon bombings, a day of horrifying carnage and death. Looking for...
Love Continues Beyond It All
It was a very challenging time for me and I was struggling. I had been hurt deeply by the words and actions of someone whom I loved. A friend sat...
