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Stay Home, Waste Lives

Fear and anxiety have walked beside me basically my entire life.  Friends they are not, however during the covid fiasco...

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Lost and Found

Don’t you hate losing things?  I feel like I spend one third of my life looking for things I’ve misplaced...

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HELP!

The most frequent prayer that rolls off my lips is, “Lord Jesus, help me.”  Only four short words, it sounds...

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If Not Now, When?

As a mother and wife, I have heard the words, “Not now” or “I’ll do it later” far too often....

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Just an Ordinary Day

1-16-2023 It’s Ordinary Time.  If you are Catholic, you know what that means.  The Christmas season is officially over, (sigh...

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Nothing Else

I just want to lay at Your feet and absorb Your love, O Lord for I am weary of this...

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Magnet of God

Have you ever experienced the “magnet of God”?  What is that, you might wonder? One day I hadn’t planned to...

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Live to Seek God

Remember bookmarkers?  Back in the day when Hallmark shops had a carousel with tasseled words of wisdom?  As a child,...

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Take No Offense

I wonder what happened to the common phrase I heard throughout my childhood, “Sticks and stones may break my bones,...

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Mind of God

I am always trying to comprehend the ways of God, but it’s just not possible with my finite mind.  The...

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Catholic Clutter

Catholicism is a fascinating thing.  Often I am really stumped by it.  There is so much doctrine, ritual, legalism, rote...

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Mindful Pancakes

On a recent trip out of town we had three great choices of where to go out for breakfast.  We...

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The Swing

I used to always say, “Mother feels best when everyone’s in the nest.”  Well, nowadays the nest has been mostly...

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Gifts

I find it interesting the way people receive gifts differently.  Maybe this stems from my grandmother sobbing whenever she received...

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