Lots of Coffee, lots of kids. It's a peaceful life.
I came across this little leaf on my way home from walking the dog yesterday and I thought...“I know just how you feel!” Buried! And trying so hard to be happy, hopeful and full of life, when inside you just feel…gray. (Not to mention dead, but don’t tell this little leaf that.)February can be a hard month for us Northerners. The winter stretches … [Read more...]
Fooled you! If you’ve come to this blog for talk of football, you’ve come to the wrong place.What I’m wondering is, are you ready for some talk of the end times? That’s much more sustaining than a Bud Lite and a plate of beef nachos, don’t you think?My good man Tony has tagged me for that ubiquitous book meme.I remembered this fact the other … [Read more...]
From Margaret (Mary) in MinnesotaThe Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart(as given by Our Lord to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque)1. I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.2. I will give peace in their families.3. I will console them in all their troubles.4. They shall find in My Heart an assured refuge during life and … [Read more...]
I have made it home safely from my retreat and was relieved to note that I still had five children on my return. My husband is such a trooper. Not only did he manage to get them to Mass (and back) and keep them fed & happy (I assume), he even managed to run a couple errands on Saturday!“You got a haircut?” I said incredulously. “What’d you do … [Read more...]
No mother could snatch her child from a burning building more swiftly than God is constrained to succor a penitent soul.-- St. Henry Suso Jennifer wrote to ask me about the First Confession/First Communion program at our church, and as such I am going to have this post about Cate’s first confession do double duty.I know that Cate won’t mind!Let me … [Read more...]
Nothing is sweeter than the calm of conscience, nothing safer than purity of soul - yet no one can bestow this on himself because it is properly the gift of God's grace. -- St. Columbanus Cate made her first confession last evening! (Story to follow.)Ad Jesum per Mariam, … [Read more...]
“There is no task that could be presented to me, no matter how hard, that I would hesitate to undertake. For I have already experienced in many ways that if I strive at the outset with determination to do it, even in this life His Majesty pays the soul in such ways that only he who has this joy understands it.”St. Teresa of Avila *The above was … [Read more...]
…but I’m hoping that a quart or two of coffee will help. We’ve got a lot of snorty, sniffly people in this house at present and I am no exception. I’m wondering: Just how long can a single, silly cold last? Is this some sort of divine justice thing?We had a wonderful weekend despite the heaps of Kleenex. My daughter attended a 3-hour retreat for … [Read more...]
“Among the wonders worked by Jesus Christ, can any match the compassion he showed to the lepers? Somehow the wretchedness and horror of their condition represent everything about our lives that we consider impossible. Yet, when the leper approaches Christ filled with expectation, his entire life changes.” (Magnificat magazine, January 2008)Happy … [Read more...]
A little girl in a yellow dress sits on a cafeteria chair. Her snow boots are swinging slightly and her head is bent studiously over her notebook as one long lock of hair escapes from her ponytail scrunchie and comes to rest lightly on the white page.Her momma stands nearby thinking, “My heart is melting!”My daughter Cate had her First Confession … [Read more...]
