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Once I Was Blind
ORDER: ONCE I WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE How It All Started I have known Charles Piccirilli since just after High School. At that time I was a real mess - a feminist, romanticized anarchist, searching desperately for God. The guy I was dating at the time worked for...
Postpartum Depression
I stood knee deep in the direct center of the pond, the lukewarm water slowly creeping higher up my legs. I was numb to the water and the squishy mud beneath my feet, making its way through the spaces between my toes. My eyes focused on the great emptiness before me...
The Revelation at Emmaus
Were not our hearts burning within us? Revelation is a Gift There have been some very explicit moments in my life in which God intervened most powerfully in the midst of the ordinary and mundane. Still, I did not/or could not see it. In sharing these stories of miraculous events and healings I have […]
Birth Story #4
I was always one of those people who wondered how in the world a woman could be so caught off guard by the birth of her child that she could accidentally deliver in a car, bathroom, or elevator. I mean, how could a woman be so out of tune with her body that she's not...
Running a Household
This fun interview with Christian Radio’s Claude Jennings allowed me to get into the “nitty-gritty” of running a household as a stay-at-home mom of little kids. The funny, the frustrating, and the...
Why Easter?
If you asked many Christians what the highest holy day of their faith would be, they would say Christmas. While truly significant and necessary, the birth of Christ would mean nothing to us unless it was fulfilled in the Resurrection. There are also churchgoers who we...
Peace & Growth Through Suffering
It was through several instances of spiritual struggle and discernment - confession for one, that I heard mentioned again and again the name of a French priest and his very popular books on peace. Fr. Jacques Philippe, a priest serving in The Community of the...
Blogging and the Faith Journey
Joining fellow Catholic Mom writers on a fun and silly live video that will certainly cheer you up, give you a laugh, and show you the "reality" of the people behind the blogs! Erika Marie (SimpleMama) and Lisa Henley Jones (SoundMindandSpirit) host this episode of CM...
Christ in the Holocaust
The last memory Immaculée Ilibagiza has of her father is him approaching her somberly, placing his rosary tightly in her hand, and instructing her to go to a local pastor's house to seek shelter for her life. It was 1994 and the holocaust in Rwanda was beginning....
Weighted Rice Blanket
I can't tell you how many times I have heard someone say they were going to create a patting machine for their baby's back throughout the night. Or how many times I have heard my husband say he was going to cut off his hand and leave it on our kid's back through the...
A Boyhood Tale of St. Patrick
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, we are given a wonderful opportunity to kindle a love of the beloved patron of Ireland with our children - celebrating a feast day that is deeply rooted in the faith of a boy who became a great man. This fabulously...
Relevant Radio Live
MORNING AIR LIVE WITH JOHN HARPER ON RELEVANT RADIO As we enter Lent and consider a return to being more diligent to reading and reflecting on scripture, the simple age-old tradition of Lectio Divina (explained in detail here) offers an easy blueprint. The four-step...
