Look for the Light
No matter our physical or mental state, our age or abilities, God is working in the darkness, bringing light to souls through Christ.
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Echoability
My children look at the things God has made, and the echo reverberates through their minds, making connections and painting pictures of the truths the Creator intended for them to discover like treasure.
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On Clichés
There will be a last time that your child holds your hand to cross the street, but you won’t know it when it happens. But one day, you’ll realize that they don’t do that anymore. There will be a last time they all ride in the car with you.
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I Will Most Gladly
Rather than being in danger of losing myself as I served my family, I usually faced the opposite danger of holding myself back, of measuring out my service.
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Easter Monday, Christina Rossetti
Out in the rain a world is growing green,
On half the trees quick buds are seen
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Links for Holy Week
Holy Week and Resurrection Sunday have come up rather fast for me this year. Maybe it’s the same for you. Whether you’re wholly prepared to celebrate or skidding into the week barely hanging on, the list below is to serve you this week.
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On Tolkien Reading Day
When we see news of a miraculous conception come to a young woman in Galilee, we can imagine a crumbling stronghold. Evil’s end is sure.
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The Prayer of St. Patrick
That is why I must shout aloud in return to the Lord for such great good deeds of his, here and now and forever, which the human mind cannot measure.
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Time, Routines, and Interruptions that Aren’t
While we want to be good stewards of the time God has given us, we can fall into patterns of unnecessary striving, laziness, avoidance, or idolatry.
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Beautiful Books
An acquaintance described them with a phrase her six-year-old friend coined: “deliciously kind.” They’re the stories that remind us of the world that ought to be.
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On Ash Wednesday
This world is forever demanding that we take it as seriously as it takes itself, and it tempts us to take ourselves too seriously too.
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Do the Next Thing
In the days when we’re not sure what to do next, let’s do the next thing.
