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Posted on January 13, 2017

Catholic Exchange: On Being Human and the Need to Wonder

I stood on a cold, frosty afternoon looking out the window at my daughter playing in the snow. She was bedecked head to toe with winter gear to protect her from the bitter wind, a wind she hardly noticed. Her fuchsia snow pants insulated her knees from the icy snow and she sat contentedly eating …

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Posted on September 14, 2016September 14, 2016

The Wisdom of Children and Hope in Suffering

My daughter is my greatest teacher. This seems strange in a world where children are reduced to a means to an end or even viewed primarily as accessories. In the West, children are something we have on our own terms. They do not exist for their own sake; they only exist if we will it. …

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Posted on May 12, 2015

Society’s Disconnect from the Joy of Children

For reasons that I am not going to discuss explicitly, I have been contemplating our culture's hostility towards children. We live in a culture that views children largely as a nuisance or accessory. Unfortunately this view has pervaded the culture including within the Catholic Church and other Christian communities. My husband and I have been …

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Posted on May 11, 2015

My Daughter Knows How to Love Big

My 3 year old, soon to be 4, daughter has the biggest and kindest heart of anyone I have ever met. Those of you who read my blog regularly, or who know me in person, know that she is my only child. She is our blessing and gift and she may end up being the …

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Posted on May 7, 2015

A Very Brief Reflection on Motherhood

There are moments, and they are fleeting, when my daughter places her hand on my face and looks into my eyes with her deep, beautiful eyes and asks me if I am ok, or she tells me she loves me, or she looks at me knowingly with a slight smile across her lips and says …

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Posted on March 13, 2015

Down Shifting: Properly Ordering Family and Study

This semester has been a bit of a challenge for me. The challenge is balancing family and full-time studies. Being a full-time graduate student is a lot like working full-time. Not to mention that my entire program is online. I seldom interact with my professors. I am essentially teaching myself theology and philosophy with the …

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Posted on May 27, 2014

Gardening: Playing in God’s Creation

You care for the earth, give it water;you fill it with riches.Your river in heaven brims overto provide its grain.And thus you provide for the earth;you drench its furrows;you level it, soften it with showers;you bless its growth.Psalm 65This morning I was out in the morning sunshine picking kale with my daughter in our garden. …

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Posted on January 7, 2014

Music, Beauty, and Childhood Dreams

Like me, do any of you have TOO many interests?  I have a hard time keeping them in check sometimes.  I want to read, write, play music, sing, act (this is a new one for me), paint, etc.  I am a lover of the arts, but it tends to get pushed back to an oven …

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Posted on October 29, 2013

Leading With Joy in Parenting

Lately I have seen a lot of articles on how our culture is fearful of children.  There is even a new phobia of pregnant women that has been in the news.  Time ran a piece on child free living a while back.  All of these articles make me deeply sad for these people.  When I …

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