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Get Your Butt Off the Mountain - Blessed Is She

Get Your Butt Off the Mountain

Oh man, the scrapbook moments of life are awesome, aren’t they? Do you ever scroll through your phone’s camera roll and get lost in the sweetness of memories? Maybe it’s...
March 12, 2017
Peculiarly His Own - Blessed Is She

Peculiarly His Own

  I don’t often use the word peculiar. It’s a funny one to roll off of the tongue. Peculiar. Not a word with the best connotations. I always think of...
March 11, 2017
Being Whole - Blessed Is She

Being Whole

  “Be a person of integrity,” we tell our kids and teenagers. It’s a goal that may seem fuzzy; what does “integrity” mean, anyhow? Years ago, when I discovered that...
March 10, 2017
God Still Answers Prayers - Blessed Is She

God Still Answers Prayers

The summer before my junior year of college was one of the most exciting and terrifying seasons of my life. I was in a dating relationship with a guy, for...
March 09, 2017
What About This Generation? - Blessed Is She

What About This Generation?

Have you noticed how every generation has a label? The “civic generation” always put others first. The “baby boomers” are self-centered and too permissive with their children. “Generation X” and...
March 08, 2017
Chicken Pox, My Imaginary Bestie, and Forgiveness - Blessed Is She

Chicken Pox, My Imaginary Bestie, and Forgiveness

I wrestle my way out of my coat, hat, neck gater, mittens, and snow pants. They fall wet and forgotten to the floor near the back door. I eagerly push...
March 07, 2017
Making Strangers Out of Those Closest to Us - Blessed Is She

Making Strangers Out of Those Closest to Us

In my adult life, I move quite a bit. In fourteen years, I've lived in six different places, five different states. Talk about being the new girl, right? I know...
March 06, 2017
The One - Blessed Is She

The One

None of us have only one identity. At least, I don’t. I have numerous identities and they have evolved over time as I’ve grown and lived. Daughter. Sister. Friend. Goddaughter....
March 05, 2017
You Don't Have to Have It All Figured Out - Blessed Is She

You Don't Have to Have It All Figured Out

He left everything. All his riches, all his comforts. Just walked away from it without a second glance to follow a stranger. Can you even imagine trusting someone so implicitly,...
March 04, 2017
Living the Works of Mercy - Blessed Is She

Living the Works of Mercy

Today is the feast day of Saint Katharine Drexel, one of only two recognized American-born saints. I find her life fascinating, particularly in light of today’s readings. Katharine was born...
March 03, 2017
Jump - Blessed Is She

Jump

There’s something heroic that happens when your toes converge with the edge of fear, when they graze the line between safety and all-out war. But it doesn’t feel that way,...
March 02, 2017
God Wants Your Heart for Lent - Blessed Is She

God Wants Your Heart for Lent

Ash Wednesday First Reading: Joel 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments,...
March 01, 2017