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GPS
Sometimes in the spiritual life I feel like the Holy Spirit is guiding me often like my GPS does when I’m coming home from a friend’s house or otherwise driving at night. I am by nature a planner. I have a small comfort zone which I’m working on expanding but it takes time and I’m generally described as a very cozy person. I like to feel like I’m on top of things and have a sense of direction…
The Feast
My mom is a very skilled home cook and comes from a line of caterers. She knows how to feed a crowd and her Polish ancestry means that there’s not enough unless everyone can eat 2 portions and the table still have leftovers. She was working on a luncheon for new families in our Parish and asked me to assist. I was more than willing to help and sous chef and hauler of the great many trays of…
The Village
I cannot put into words the love I have for the Blessed Virgin Mary and Joesph her spouse. I love my brothers and sisters the Saints, the ancestors I’ve never met, the angels who surround and protect me. I’ve heard it said that it takes a village to raise a child. I think God knew it would take a village to get me to Heaven.
The Gaze
Some days after a particularly long week or even one rough day of work I feel God’s gaze on me and I am tempted to frustration. I know He won’t give me more than we can’t handle together but I want to do it myself. I want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to cling to my illusions of control. I am tempted to seek my own pleasure instead of serve and seeing this weakness I want God to get rid of…
Evening Prayer
Today at work was an odd combination of slow but stressful. However in the quiet moment when evening finally arrived I was convicted after doing evening prayer that Jesus “did not live to please Himself.” What a beautiful thought how He did everything for the Father without seeking Himself. As a Consecrated Single being unmarried and living alone in a basement apartment in my parent’s house I…
The Gardenias
When I was little I watched a movie The Mask of Zorro. The main character has a daughter who he loves very much. He places gardenias (a beautiful flower) in her crib to give it fragrance. One terrible evening his child Elena is stolen by his enemy. His enemy removes the child from her home and raises her as his own in Spain.When she is older she returns to California and recognizes the scent of…
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The Butterfly
From a young age I have always loved butterflies. I think they are so beautiful and I am nostalgic for them in the midst of the winter. I admire the life cycle of a butterfly from fat caterpillar to the cocoon to the emergence of wings. I so love Jesus but sometimes the difference between Him and me is so staggering that I can’t believe He loves me as fully and perfectly as He does. There’s a…
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Medium Rare
I have bipolar 1 disorder and while I am doing generally well Satan is trying to steal my peace. I love beautiful art, literature, antiquing, family time, my Catholic devotionals, mass and confession. I even like my job. However my own condition is full of unknowns and there is a secret fear of martyrdom in my heart which I can’t explain at only a rational level. This idea that my mental illness…
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The Stream
I have lived in many different places. Some people ask me which place I like the best. And it is particularly hard to choose because no matter where you live the fundamentals remain the same. You work daily, gas up the car, get groceries, go to the doctor and engage in whatever entertainments are appealing to you. To me it’s really the people that make the place. I’ve been going down memory lane…
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My Way
I work a later shift at my job so things really slow down around 4 PM, two hours before my shift is over. And I find one of the hardest hurdles in my life is the waiting. Not just for the work day to be done but the waiting as a Christian for the kingdom of God and the triumph of the Immaculate heart of Mary. How did Mary believe as she changed diapers that one day her son would be the long…
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The Stillness
I have come to a place of wellness and appreciate the new year as a sort of clean slate with the chronic health troubles that I had in 2022. I strived to be gentle with myself and have (up to this present moment) a huge devotion to Saint Joseph who I love so much that the sorrows of the illness fade to the memory of being under his protection as he helped me rejoin my family and my…
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The Betrayal
Recently I was betrayed by someone very close to me. I never saw it coming in a million years. I thought of my Beloved Jesus Who went through a betrayal of His own and the tragedy of the event is not even where or what you think it is. You’d be tempted to think Judas’ worst sin was handing over Jesus to death for 30 pieces of silver. You’d be wrong if you chose to believe that though. His…
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Growth in the Spirit
I was actually asked to give a short witness about growth in one’s life in the Spirit. And to me (you may Remember) life in the Spirit is all about relationship. My relationship with God began when I was very young I was raised Catholic and had a moment when I was about 13 where after a really horrible day I started praying and my prayer turned into a list of grievances and then I got really…
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The Present
Merry Christmas!
I was watching an episode of the Big Bang Theory one year and Sheldon did not want anyone to buy him gifts because that meant that he would have to by them a gift back per social convention. Penny ignores his concerns and buys him a gift anyway. In preparation for this gift Sheldon selects multiple baskets for Penny. Some larger and greater in value and some smaller and he determines that he…
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Bookmarks for Mama
I had a very artsy friend named Gretchen around first or second grade and she had the brilliant idea to make a bookmark for her mother with scraps of construction paper left over from school. I saw and was instantly obsessed. I love my mother but lack artistic ability and creativity so I would just write the word mom or I love you mama with many colored hearts in a row. My mother loved it and put…
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A Deeper Beauty
So there was a time in my early twenties where I would have considered myself beautiful. I mention it only because after being diagnosed with a chronic condition whose medicine side effects include weight gain and acne while I wouldn’t call myself ugly I don’t meet the personal standard I hold for beauty anymore. I was talking to another woman who just had a baby and I found she feels the same…
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Come Let Us Adore
Come Let Us Adore
I went to mass for Corpus Christi back on June 6th and the priest shared that of the 173 that attended Sunday mass only 5 signed up for adoration to celebrate this glorious Feast of the true presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. And there was a time in my life where I loved Jesus and I loved the world too and would try to keep things in “balance” where I had it “under control.” Fortunately I had a…
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