We Are All Called to Lives of Holiness
My regular Confessor knows just how much I struggle with being a stay-at-home mom. The reasons are varied, but more than anything, I am trying to find the balance between doing what is best for my daughter and using the gifts that God has given me. I know that the best thing is for me …
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We walk this earth broken, ravaged by sin. Each of us carries deep hurts from our experiences with other people. It could be family, friends, work, church, etc. Wherever there are people there is such brokenness. The problem for each one of us is that we forget that fact. We become blinded by our own …
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Today is my 4th wedding anniversary. It has been an amazing and interesting ride. I have learned more in the past 4 years than I did in the 29 previous years. I know more about my self; my strengths and my weaknesses. Marriage is a vocation because it is a path to holiness. As I …
Today is my daughter's birthday. She turned 3 years old. As I snuggled next to her this morning and gave her kisses waiting for her to wake up, I was filled with excitement for her. Birthdays, like other holidays, are a time of magic in childhood. And at my daughter's current age, it is pretty …
There is a disturbing trend in this country in regards to discourse and the right to personal opinion and free speech. I know that most people who frequent the Internet have noticed that comment sections on Facebook, Twitter, articles, and blogs are filled with name calling, vilification, irrational rants, and unintelligent and unintelligible arguments. People …
I saw yet another article condemning stay-at-home moms as second class citizens. Quite frankly, the author is not worth the link in on my blog. She is worth prayers, but not a link. The argument is always the same: The self-made, individualist, materialistic, selfish woman is the REAL woman of the 21st Century. Let's call …
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It is Small Success Thursday over at CatholicMom.com. Come share this week's small successes with us. This week was a travel week for my husband. Thankfully he is home for a while, but things get a little topsy-turvy when he is on the road. I managed to actually get some sleep while he was gone. …
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Today is Small Success Thursday over at CatholicMom.com. Share your week's successes with us. This week is our first week back into a normal routine. My husband had two weeks off over the holidays and while it is great to have him around, we all tend to fall out of our routines when he is home. …
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Today I am linked up over at CatholicMom.com's Small Success Thursday. Think about a few of your small successes for this week and share them with us. My first success, and it is a big one in my book, is that I got the upstairs closet somewhat cleaned and organized. You know that room or …
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I am having one of those days in Motherhood and as a Christian when "I do the very thing I hate" to quote Saint Paul. I have allowed little things and my own failures drag me down. That is what the Devil wants. He would rather I wallow in self-pity rather than ask The Lord …
Swimming the Depths 