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Where Is Your Heart in Their Struggle?
Every day I drive from the beaches of Orange County to the cement jungles of Los Angeles. And every day I drive past torn tents and boxed cities that house...
True Friend, True Treasure
I was longing for a true friend. The previous months had been painful. I had lost my boyfriend through a frightening breakup, and I felt the disappearance of friends whom...
Battling for Joy
The cool September air blew gently into the room as my husband opened the back door to leave for work. A lonely dread sat in my chest. I did not...
Power in the Simple
I don’t know what happens to us as we age, how we go from sitting on the trampoline and marveling at the twinkling nighttime sky to sitting on our couches...
You Can Be Brave
I was absentmindedly deleting old messages on my phone when my Mom’s text thread popped up. My finger hovered over the screen as I debated over rereading our last texts....
Things Not on My Bucket List
Pain is awful. I've suffered through sickness, surgery, unmedicated labor, and natural childbirth. Not so long ago, even the pain from a measly splinter in my hand left me feeling...
Seeds on the Ground, Spaghetti on the Floor
Mealtimes at our home are—how shall I put it—challenging. With three young children, our mealtimes are spent bargaining, cutting everything into choke-resistant pieces, keeping the food separated on the plate,...
I Gotta Quiet It Down
"What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops" (Matthew 10:27). My spiritual director asked, "How's your prayer?" He...
He Will Speak Through You
At the age of seventeen, I participated in a week-long retreat called “Young Apostles” for a summer Catholic Steubenville conference in Tucson, Arizona. At the end of the week, the...
Stop Grasping and Start Kingdom Living
For most of my growing-up years into my late twenties, I believed I would "live my best life" when I had all the things I hoped for. You know what...
A Winding and Fruitful Road
I grew up in a bubble. It was a lovely, sheltered, Christian bubble where I flourished. The first public school I attended was my university where I encountered people whose...
Who's on the Throne?
The priest guided our meditation as we knelt in adoration. “Close your eyes and imagine that you are opening the door to your heart. Step in, into the throne room....
