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Open Your Heart
Can I be real with all of you? A fear in my single woman, subconscious mind is being infertile. Of course I won't know until I get married one day,...
Waiting for Our Miracles
I was several states away on the day my nephew was to be born, and I don’t think I put my phone down all day. I eagerly anticipated the ring...
Let's Talk Saint Joseph
“I just finished a thirty-day novena to Saint Joseph, and it was amazing,” she gushed. I smiled and thought, Wow, that’s impressive considering I’ve started numerous nine-day novenas and only...
An Old Table, Jesus' Ancestors, You and Me
The old wooden table belonged to my grandparents. My grandfather was a musician, and one week before Christmas he came home with his guitar filled with tamales and crumbled dollar...
Rock Climbing and Renewed Hope
I wheeled the minivan into the parking lot, thankful for a few extra minutes to shuttle my sons into the venue. Their hesitant faces peered out as the sliding door...
You Can Still Change Your Mind
I was a college senior and had finally decided that enough was enough. I needed to find new friends who would encourage me in my faith journey rather then discourage...
Surrender Your Vision
My husband and I are dreamers. We enjoy setting goals and achieving them. We came into our marriage with a shared vision for our life, and we were hustling to...
We Try Again Each Day
Crawling into my lap with downcast eyes, she apologized in her sweet little voice for her struggles the previous night. Nighttime routines are a good thing, but they don’t always...
Mary Always Leads Us to Her Son, Jesus
During my pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, I experienced Mary’s love so deeply. Devoted pilgrims prayerfully moved across the piazza on their knees...
This Generation of Women
“To what shall I compare this generation?” (Matthew 11:16) As a campus minister to college students, I can tell you how I would compare this generation of women. I would...
Leaping Fishes and the Holy Hand of God
I was getting divorced, not even a year after I’d married, and I felt destroyed. So I went away a while to the ocean to rest and pray and try...
When You Can’t Be in Two Hospitals at Once
This week in 2019, my then two-year-old son and my husband were in two different hospitals. My son was doing three weeks of inpatient physical therapy at Children’s Hospital, learning...
