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What Does It Mean to be a Queen?

If you were a queen, what kind of queen would you be? A “good” queen?...

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Prayer Before Meals

Who does that? Who plants a HYDRANGEA right next to an established bush? Clearly an...

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How NOT to Have Sex with Your Boyfriend

Let’s just get one thing straight. Up until about two months ago, I was the...

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Enough Already

I always feel like I’m not trying hard enough. Right now, I’m sitting here at...

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Sighing

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December 24, 2015

Merry Christmas!

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Five Minute Friday: Yes

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

September 02, 2015

Lost

I don’t think I can ever be a good person. I know how and it’s...

August 2015

August 22, 2015

Predator or prey?

Dear God, Dear Lord, I can’t run any more. I can’t chase You down any...

August 03, 2015

The Most Reliable High

“It’s the most reliable high I know of.” I told someone that, yesterday. I was...

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Litany of Humility

I ran across this lovely sung rendition of the Litany of Humility, which I spoke...

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Draw me…

To the One who is both Host and Guest, Master and Servant, Lover and Beloved:...

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Five Minute Friday: Close

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

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January 06, 2014

Bold, Frankincense, and Myrrh

“There!”“Where?”“Out there! See?”“Oh, now I do. In the East.”“Yes. That cloud of dust.”“That’s a caravan,...

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September 13, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Mercy

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August 30, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Worship

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Five Minute Friday: Present

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April 10, 2013

I is for Me

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G is for God

Thank GOD my faith is not about emotion. When I’m crawling through the mental tar-pit...

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February 15, 2013

Five Minute Friday: Beloved

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Five Minute Friday: Afraid

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January 30, 2013

Dreamless

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December 2012

December 29, 2012

What’s Yours?

Everybody makes ‘em. Nobody keeps ‘em. Yeah. I’m talking about New Year’s resolutions. You have...

December 24, 2012

Wood of the Cradle, Wood of the Cross

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone in the whole world, but especially to my...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

Worship

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August 2011

August 10, 2011

One of Those “Character-Building” Kind of Days

It’s already started. I had big plans to accomplish a whole lot today, and so...

August 08, 2011

More than meets the eye…

Image via Wikipedia There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt...

July 2011

July 30, 2011

Stuff Catholics Like: Love Wins (Part 2)

This is the second part of a two part article/review of Rob Bell’s newest book,...

July 29, 2011

Stuff Catholics Like: Love Wins (Part I)

If you haven’t already figured it out by some of my earlier blog entries, I’m...

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June 26, 2011

Religious Enthusiasm

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