Virtues are good habits of character. No one’s come up with a better way to be happy than to discover how to…
Love is for Grownups
Posts Categorized: Love
How Can Love be a Wound?
In last week’s blog post, I shared something from St. Basil about love. A reader emailed me: “I got everything except the…
The Ability to Love is in Everyone
St. Basil the Great (330-379) wrote guidance to his monks on “fanning into flame the spark of divine love that is hidden within…
Your Closest Moment?
An accountability buddy is a must-have when you want to build a new habit or keep an old commitment fresh. Especially for…
Why Speaking Well of Your Spouse is so Important
Sharing this week a post by Michael Hyatt, former CEO of Thomas Nelson publishing, on how easy it is to slip into…
Loving Look of a Lifetime
A while back, I wrote a post called “Grandma’s Loving Look.” Yesterday, I attended a talk by Sr. Tracey Dugas, FSP, a…
Hand to Hand in Mercy
I committed a sin of omission this week. That’s a fancy name for chickening out. Here’s what happened. It started out all…
Power of a Simple Prayer
I had a topic to write about this week, but it was pre-empted by events. I like to keep the blog upbeat,…
Grandma’s Loving Look
Mercy is love as it meets the sinner. And the way we “meet” each other most often is the way we look…
Lessons from a Bean Sprout
Every student in Mr. Palmer’s fourth-grade class nestled a dried bean into a Dixie cup of dirt. Instructions were precise: one inch…
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