In Three Parts~ Part the First ~It shouldn’t surprise me that this Lent has been hard. It shouldn’t surprise me that I falter…grow discouraged…and grapple, sometimes resentfully, with the weight of the cross God sends me.None of this should surprise me and yet…It does.It always does.We are asked to join Our Lord in the desert. “Okay!” I say … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday
Food for Thought
“You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people whom God has put into your life.”-- Sister Wendy BeckettHow is your Lent going?Mine has been quite hard.*The image of Mother Teresa is from a paper silhouette by the artist Dan Paulos. … [Read more...]
Food for Thought
“The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart.This cross He now sends you He has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with His own hands to see that it be not one … [Read more...]
Obedience Training
A Lenten Reflection for both Dogs and HumansThis is our dog Ellie.Yes, she has a tater tot on her nose.“Leave it” is one of Ellie’s most popular tricks. The premise is simple but impressive: we put a tasty morsel on her nose and she will sit there, long-suffering but patient, until we give the word for her to eat her treat.Leave it...Leave … [Read more...]
Notes from the Triduum
Here is a photo from our Holy Thursday Seder.It shows 4-year-old Angela and her father, who is helping her ask “The Four Questions.” It is also the only photo that I took, (not unlike my friend Nutmeg’s single shot of their post-Seder china in the dishwasher), because I was tired, darn it, and did not feel like taking photos.Bad blogger.It was not … [Read more...]
Letting the Little Ones Come to Us
Yesterday I thought it would be fun to interview the children. I hauled out the video camera and one by one, I asked them questions pertaining to how well they knew the momma while the others waited their turn upstairs.Some of the answers were hilarious. For example, when asked how old I was, Angela replied: “Big. Actually, you’re medium. Daddy’s … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday
The “No Fooling” EditionSigh.AMDG, … [Read more...]
A Corny Request
…and other thoughts.Happy 5th Sunday of Lent, everyone! How is it going?I will tell you that I had an…interesting week, in that I tried to go without my beloved morning cup of half-caff. My motives were two-part—one, I would sacrifice the taste of the coffee, which I love, and two, I would cut way back on my caffeine consumption and as such, be a … [Read more...]
A Matter of Perspective
“Saint Bernard of Clairvaux said that pilgrims on the spiritual journey face alternately in two directions: when we look at ourselves, we are saddened by our failings; when we look at God, we rejoice in His love.”(From Magnificat magazine, Prayer for the Morning,Monday, March 23, 2009) Happy 4th week of Lent, my friend!As always, make it count.Ad … [Read more...]
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