When I was a teenager, I thought doing whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, however I wanted was the definition of true freedom. I wanted to stay out late/early getting into trouble with my friends, sleep all day, and wake up the next afternoon to do it all over again. And I…
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Last weekend I had the privilege to attend the Finding Your Fiat Conference with my favorite sister-in-law. Despite what Google assumed and the image it auto-applied after seeing the event on my calendar, the event had nothing to do with cars. It was wonderful to step away from the busyness of life…
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On the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, we attended a neighboring parish’s Mass. The priest, Father Peck, gave a homily that challenged me in a positive way, so I wanted to share bits of it here for you to consider. Some Context The Eucharist is a central part of the Catholic faith. We are invited to receive the Lord each…
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Some days, actually a lot of days recently, I feel the Lord is calling me to do things I’m not capable of doing. To bear pain I’m not strong enough to bear. To handle situations I lack the skills to manage. To see and love difficult people as He does.…
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“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” – Psalm 46:10 A sweet friend gave me a notebook with part of this Bible passage on it earlier this year. The paper is about half gone and the…
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A few weeks ago at Mass my husband and I sat behind some grandparents and their 4(ish) year old grandson. He was adorable and just as rowdy and distracted as you would expect a little boy to be for Mass. He kept waving to us and “flying” his Superman doll around…
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In his Bible study program, The Great Adventure Bible Timeline, Jeff Cavins talks about how the Pharisees were set apart from the rest of the Jewish community. The Lord required this because these leaders had a history of being lured into worshipping false gods by foreign wives and the people they conquered…
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On a cold October morning I was walking briskly from the train station to my office, watching the ground in front of me so I didn’t trip on anything. #theclumsylife About half way there, I noticed a very thin man darting across the sidewalk. He looked confused and in a…
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When I was around 10 years old, I accompanied some family members to a psychic reading. Though I wasn’t the subject of the reading, before we left, the psychic looked at me and said, “You will be a writer when you grow up, as long as you don’t let a…
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