On Busyness and Rest

I’ve been feeling pretty stressed lately. I had a really bad day with all this yesterday, and I’d just been to confession the night before! It was like all that progress was undone and it was very frustrating. I started out with added patience and grace, but between trying to fix up my prayers for [...]

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7 Quick Takes – A Big Weekend, Advice for Procrastinators, Super Baby, and a Prince Party

-1- Ooof, I feel so behind and then some. This week has flown by! I did finish putting the pictures into last week’s post, but I think there’s still a little more content I want to add.. -2- Oh boy, here we go! This is a busy weekend with Mother’s Day etc, but the biggest [...]

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Pride and Humility – Remembering Chuck Colson

April 24 On Friday Focus on the Family had a special broadcast remembering Chuck Colson. The link can be found here: http://www.focusonthefamily.com/popups/media_player.aspx?MediaId={4DAE1E47-D541-47C5-A2A6-B75C3EA46273}. I’ve been thinking more about pride since my walk in the woods and also how it relates to enaging the culture, but I was just scratching the surface. It was just what I [...]

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A Walk in the Woods

Feb 25 Only Love Reamins – J J Heller Scenes of you come rushing through You are breaking me down So break me into pieces That will grow in the ground I know that I deserve to die For the murder in my heart So be gentle with me Jesus As you tear me apart [...]

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Engaging the Culture

April 23 I listened to an excellent Focus on the Family Broadcast recently, on engaging the culture (aka politics and everything society and Christians disagree on). Part 1 can be found here: http://www.focusonthefamily.com/popups/media_player.aspx?MediaId={4B004E00-DB3E-4BBC-82C7-F0D0B007955F} Jim Garlow spoke about how we can and should engage the culture on political issues, but how we must always do it [...]

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7 Quick Takes: Forgiveness, Valentine’s week and Photography insights

1. Reflections from the weekly radio broadcasts on marriage and relationships: When it comes to finding a mate in today’s culture, we’re really are consumeristic (sic). It’s all about what you can offer me, whether you can satisfy my needs or not. We really do think that way, I know I have. If the price [...]

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7 Quick Takes: A Test of Faith, Testing my New Routine and Testing out more Manual Settings

1. I had a brief retreat recap here, but with the pictures it got way too long not to be it’s own post. 2. I knew this retreat had definitely been a time of great spiritual growth for me, but I had no idea that my renewed faithfulness would be put to the test so [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Mercy, 40 Days for Life and Some Mini Pancakes

It’s been so long since I got a post up on time… 1. I got pretty upset with my little son the other day when I found he had pulled some of the green tomatoes off my cherry tomato plant. Not one fruit is even showing the smallest sign of ripening and as long as [...]

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Where I’m at Spiritually right now.

Looking at my faith life lately, I’m definitely experiencing a spiritual dry spell at the moment (ie. God really seems far away). To some extent it is to be expected; over the summer all routine etc breaks up, and the Devil knows it. I had hoped/and made it a goal to go to adoration once [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Love, Potty Training Week, Pregnancy Wardrobe and Nursing

June 26 1. I woke up one morning this week, too early and pretty grumpy, but when I went to pray before getting up, I actually surrendered and recommitted to being positive rather than writing off the entire day before having even gotten out of bed. So, led by the spirit (or just because I [...]

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