My pastor once said that Advent is a time of gratitude “for the gift to come.” “Thank God ahead of time” is…
Advent: Thanking God Ahead of Time
Posts Categorized: Gratitude
Strolling Through Psalm 44
St. Paul had reason to be depressed. You know, thrown in jail, beaten, shipwrecked, stoned and left-for-dead — stuff like that. How…
Meditative Stroll Through Psalm 19
I fell in love with Psalm 19 when I was a new Catholic. The drama of this psalm still gives me a…
How I Crossed the Tiber Without Sinking
Dan Burke’s website SpiritualDirection.com commissioned me to write my conversion story — and now I’m sharing it below with you! Love always,…
He is Risen! Celebrating with flowers and heavenly music
He is risen indeed! Heaven and earth rejoice. To help you rejoice, I made a very special 5-min video of my flower…
Sublime Musical Lenten Meditation
My friend Nancy Scimone is performing her one-woman drama, “Mary Magdalene: At the Feet of Jesus” tonight in Fairfax, Virginia (details here)….
What Can I Pray for You Today?
A friend’s son died tragically. I asked my friend, a “devout atheist,” if she would mind if I prayed for her and…
Don’t Forget the Good Stuff
Am I the only one who thought that the nightly examination of conscience was supposed to be a list of everything I…
God’s Majesty in an Ocean Sunrise
A friend said, “I love the beach in October.” That inspired me to revisit a trip to Rehoboth, Delaware, when my husband…
My Wavy Line to Holiness
I came crashing into the Catholic Church in 1990, two years after reading St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s autobiography, The Story of a…
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