“Mom, I got crucified today.” It was how he said it, with a certain satisfaction that did not match his statement. “Really?” I ask, still worrying for a moment if this was an attempt at a metaphor for a rough day on the playground. “I got the best part in the whole play – I got to …READ MORE
Knives, Necks, and Trust
I have some tendencies that lend themselves to stressful mothering. One is that, even though I know God is love, I continually struggle against my early idea of God as the terrifying judge in the sky. This can heighten anxiety and guilt over the mistakes made as I’ve groped my parenting way. It also leads …READ MORE
Quote of the Week
“They alone are able truly, to enjoy the world, who begin with the world unseen. They alone enjoy it, who have first abstained from it. They alone can truly feast, who have first fasted. They alone are able to use the world, who have learned not to abuse it. They alone inherit it, who take …READ MORE
The Reality of the Resurrection: Meaningful Moments
Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have (Lk 24:39). They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them (Lk 24:42-43). In today’s …READ MORE
A Miracle Has Happened
The alarm blares from my side of the hotel bed. There’s no time for snooze. I pull my overworked body, groggy—and under-slept—to a sitting position, one foot at a time to the floor. I can do this: another full day of meeting, greeting, and talking in a new town, towing the three kids with my …READ MORE
I Love My Priest
During your homily this morning, I experienced a stoppage of all outside noise: I could only hear you voice. You spoke of Divine Mercy: after sincerely calling us all saints, you said Divine Mercy is for the soul in our lives who is suffering, or the person who has left the church, or the beloved …READ MORE
