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Not Exactly My Planned Penance

by Filed Under: Lent, Minnesota Me, Pregnancy, Spiritual Growth Leave a Comment

I know that we’re supposed to be open to God’s will throughout the 40 days of Lent. I know this; it’s Spiritual Theology 101.Crafty Father that He is, though, He has sent me a penance I didn’t anticipate but evidently needed—and it’s a penance that concerns walking.As in, by mid-afternoon I often can’t. (I think it’s sciatic nerve thing, though my … [Read more...]

I came, I saw, I got confused

by Filed Under: Lent, Living Liturgically, Minnesota Me, The Faith 9 Comments

So the Mass I referred to in the post below was a Latin High Mass. We do not normally attend the Tridentine Rite, but a friend phoned the night before and proposed it.“It would be something lovely to do for Lent,” she suggested.I agreed. She told me that she had invited another mutual friend and her family. “If you can make it, great!” she said. … [Read more...]

The Shortcut

by Filed Under: Minnesota Me, My Girls, Parenting, Spiritual Growth 12 Comments

I’m sure you’ve all experienced this. You’re herding your children back from Communion and one of them cuts into the wrong pew. Most kids look confused for a second, and then hastily beat a retreat when they realize the tall folks there don’t look familiar.Angela did this today. On our way back she mistakenly entered the pew 2 rows ahead of … [Read more...]

27 Weeks on the 27th

by Filed Under: Just Me, Minnesota Me, Pregnancy Leave a Comment

I was going to participate in Jen’s 7 Quick Takes today but I just don’t have it in me. Too much time at the computer and my back cries out in protest…too much time spent on any activity and my back cries out in protest.This is why:You see how much I love you, right? I am willing to drag my massive frame and aching back out into a raging Minnesota … [Read more...]

A Treatise on Pickles, Patience and Bread

by Filed Under: Just Me, Minnesota Me, Motherhood, Spiritual Growth 8 Comments

Part IIRead Part I here.By the time the loaves of bread had risen to the tops of the pans and had baked in the oven to a crusty brown, the afternoon was almost gone. “They’re beautiful,” Mother said, as Ginnie cautiously took the pans from the oven.“They’re done.” Ginnie gave a vast sigh of relief. “But it takes a lot of time.”When I finally found … [Read more...]

Another Highlight from the Oscars

by Filed Under: Current Affairs, Minnesota Me 6 Comments

The more I think about it, the more I realize that there really were some great moments during the Academy Awards ceremony.This was one of them.We loved the children's book The Man Who Walked Between The Towers and are looking forward to renting this documentary. If you've seen it and can recommend it, let me know.Oh, and the fact that Bill Maher … [Read more...]

A Treatise on Pickles, Patience and Bread

by Filed Under: Minnesota Me, Motherhood, Spiritual Growth 5 Comments

These days, it’s not the spilt glasses of milk that make me cry. It’s the shattered jars of pickles.I’m pregnant. I need those pickles.Yet somehow, when I pulled that 1-gallon glass jar off the shelf at Sam’s Club and placed it in my cart, I just knew that it was an accident waiting to happen. Call it my mother’s intuition; call it my destiny; call … [Read more...]