Despite my most valiant hopes, the unexecuted Saint Patrick’s Day activities and recipes lay dormant within the World Wide Web. For the fourth year in a row, I... Read More ...
The Lord doesn’t call us to be successful, he calls us to be faithful. That age-old saying has comforted me in many life situations where it has been hard to s... Read More ...
Imagine having no concept of life outside of the town in which you grew up. You live before technology enabled sightseeing from the comfort of the couch and be... Read More ...
Have you ever felt like everything was going well, things were finally looking up...and then The Thing happened? Have you ever looked back at your life and see... Read More ...
Truth. It is what it is. And yet these days it’s become rather subjective—debates often end with statements like “well, that’s your truth and this is mine.”
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I ran to the top of the slope and stood on the edge of the cornfield to catch the final moments of the sunset. It was a magnet of incomparable power and beauty... Read More ...
In his letter to the Romans, St. Paul writes, “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate” (Romans 7:15). ... Read More ...
“I wish I could be that mom that bakes cookies. Your house always smells like cookies, and you just seem so happy.”
As I received this compliment, I was a ... Read More ...
My baby died, seven or so weeks after his conception, I can’t quite remember how many weeks exactly. I know I could dig up the exact number if I looked through... Read More ...
Athletes like runners, cyclists, and swimmers recognize that having the right outfit enables them to perform at optimal levels. As an average jogger, I know th... Read More ...
A Review of Sunday Will Never Be the Same by Dawn Eden Goldstein (Catholic Answers Press, 2019, 255pp)
In this age of truncated attention spans, it’s easier... Read More ...
May is Anencephaly Awareness Month. In our family, we are now intimately aware of anencephaly, but we weren’t always.
I had heard of anencephaly, but this s... Read More ...
