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September 2015

September 04, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Yes

I was so angry. So confused. I didn’t even go in the Adoration Chapel, because...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Ten

Lord, I am filled with anger and animosity, and I want You to take it...

July 17, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Free

I kneel down, right down in the grassy margin between the church's foundation and the...

July 10, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Hope

Hope is the thing that keeps me going. There’s a lot of people who don’t...

July 03, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Favorite

I don’t think much about favorites. It just seems like one more in a long...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Five minute friday: Blue

Resting under your mantle. It’s blue like the sky. Arching over everything around me....

May 15, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Follow

Your words have grown faint and your footsteps have long dimmed from erosion. There is...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Five Minute Friday: Wait

For a person who grew up in a home where a constant mantra was, “If...

October 2014

October 03, 2014

Five Minute Friday: New

English: Judgement of Solomon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Solomon said there was nothing new under the...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Five Minute Friday: Reach

Reach past the fear. Reach towards the truth. Putting myself “out there” is always risky....

June 2014

June 13, 2014

Five Minute Friday: Messenger

I used to think God was talking to me. Sometimes in that indefinable, still, small...

May 2014

May 23, 2014

Five Minute Friday: Close

“Just like me, they long to be close to you.” Not sure why that’s that...

May 09, 2014

Five Minute Friday: Gratitude

I have to get my picture taken for our church’s directory this afternoon, and realized...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

Five Minute Friday: Joy

Joy is a secret you just can’t keep. It burbles up, bubbles up like a...

March 07, 2014

Five Minute Friday: Willing

I don’t have the slightest idea what to write about. But I’m willing. And that’s...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Five Minute Friday: Choose

Every day, I’m making choices, even when I’d rather not. It’s so easy to just...

January 2014

January 10, 2014

Five Minute Friday: See

I don’t just want to use my eyes. I want to see. I want to...

January 03, 2014

Five Minute Friday: Fight

I’d say we should talk about Fight Club, but you know how that goes… My...

November 2013

November 01, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Grace

“Are you okay?” I had fallen in the icy parking lot outside the bookstore. He...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Together

I thought it was what I wanted. To be together. I wanted to be with...

October 11, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Ordinary

What could be more boring? That’s the first thing I think of when I think...

October 04, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Write

It sounds like a TV show, but it’s not. “So You Think You Can Write?”...

September 2013

September 13, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Mercy

I don’t think I know what this means. I mean, I think I do. Christians...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Worship

You’ll know it after it happens, but probably not during. It could happen anywhere. Dancing...

August 23, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Last

I have nothing to say, but I’m writing anyway. Last. What am I to make...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Present

Being fully present, fully alive to the moment, is the only way to really live....

July 05, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Beautiful

“When I saw you, I just thought you were so beautiful.” My God. I thought...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Rhythm

Koladera rhythm model (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Well, as a Catholic, you can probably guess where...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Remember

It’s a lot easier to forget than it is to remember. But it’s a lot...

March 08, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Home

“There’s no place like home!” It really didn’t hit me until after my mom died...

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