Scripture: A Mother's Lens

For Americans, this weekend’s buzz words are independence, liberty, and freedom. Proud of our hard-won self-governance, we have much to celebrate, but how do these ideas square with our Christian faith? Typically, the Fourth of July celebrations revolve around a freedom from oppressive rule, a freedom from tyranny. As Christians, however, we understand freedom differently. …READ MORE

I wonder what it would have been like to sit at the feet of Jesus—or somewhere out in the crowd—when suddenly he’s talking about my relationship with my mom and dad—those people I have been trained to honor and obey as a commandment next to honoring God himself. Did I hear him correctly? Did he …READ MORE

“Mom, I have a question,” my six-year-old regularly announces. She’s a talkative child, constantly chatting and wondering aloud. There are rarely moments of quiet when she’s awake, so I admittedly don’t listen attentively to all her discourses. But when she uses the “Mom, I have a question intro,” I’m usually all ears, for her phrasing …READ MORE

I’ve been a Catholic my whole life, but it’s only very recently that I’ve come to a deeper understanding of what it means to have faith as a Catholic mom. It’s because I have one serious problem: I like everything to go exactly the way I plan it to go. And when it doesn’t, I …READ MORE

Suffering, injustice, hatred, and fear confront us daily. They have entered our homes. They have entered our hearts. How can our world be healed? How can we be made whole again? There is but one answer. ‘’God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him might …READ MORE

Today, we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit. Today, we are reminded that we are truly never alone as we stop to consider God’s unmerited love and generosity in the form of a constant companion. The Holy Spirit not only accompanies us through our lives and breathes the peace and comfort of our heavenly …READ MORE