Struggling with prayer is a challenge many of us face. When should I pray? What forms of prayer should I use? How long should my prayer time be? These questions can torment us to the point of discouragement. And yet, we crave for something more – a desire to participate in a prayer time that […]
At a recent presentation I shared a quote from St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein): “The world doesn’t need what women have; it needs what women are.” One woman asked me to explain what that meant. Here’s my humble attempt. First let’s define two key words. Have and Are. Have is something that we […]
Lent 2011 was a tough season for me. I don’t know if it was realizing the enormity of our Lord’s passion and death or realizing the disgust of my own sin that caused Him to suffer greatly. Not a day passed that I didn’t shed tears caused by the heaviness in my heart. A few […]
Friends and I attended a high school fundraiser that included crazy items being auctioned off. It was a lot of fun and we were getting right into the bidding, challenging each other to outbid the other. I’m a bit of a tightwad with my money so you can imagine that I was easily outbid every […]
When I turned 50, I experienced what most people would call a “mid-life crisis.” It seemed silly to me that a woman of my maturity and life experience would be seeking answers to fundamental questions of human existence. Don’t women my age usually have it all figured out? Was I the only one who felt […]
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