Moving back to the rural Midwest, after living on the west coast for a couple of decades, I have found that my taste buds are out of place here. In southern Minnesota the food du jour is meat and potatoes. […]
Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through […]
“Listen, dear friends to God’s truth,…Stories we heard from our fathers, counsel we learned at our Mother’s knee. We’re not keeping this to ourselves, we’re passing it along to the next generation – … the marvelous things he has done.” […]
God is in never ending supply. Toilet paper may run out. Face masks may run out. Be we have the God of the universe inviting us to come and He has plenty of living water.
My mind is just full of swirling thoughts. It is hard to focus on any one thing. Then remember…meditate…ponder.
I remember going forward for prayer at the altar at church one Sunday. I was in my late 20s. This particular morning came on the heels of several months of devastating life circumstances. Not only did my husband lose his […]
I’m sure we’re all familiar with Mr. Newton’s laws of motion. His First Law states that a body at rest will remain at rest unless an outside force acts on it, and a body in motion at a constant velocity […]
Brother Lawrence, who served in a Carmelite monastery in the 1600s, said, “How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more […]
Here is the thing about love. It’s really of no value unless it is received. And it can’t be received well if you put all sorts of qualifications and expectations on it. Continuing my journey of learning about steadfast love […]
I woke up this morning feeling empty and dissatisfied. All I could think about is what I lacked. The thoughts tumbled and taunted and I couldn’t escape them. So I did the only thing I knew to do to find […]
