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The kind of people you can't wait to be friends with...
Imagine my elation when I found this rendering of one of my FAVORITE quotations! Just try and imagine it!After the first gaspy discovery, I read Rebekka's blog...and kept reading, and kept...
View ArticleTrust the plumber and love the locksmith.
I hereby resolve to treat everyone like I treat plumbers.The plumbing van pulls into my driveway, and I wave. Our favorite plumber knocks on the door, and I shout through the kitchen "Come on in!" like...
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One thing they never tell you about being a missionary...
...the theme parties are just too good.
View ArticleTime to check the Good Junk Cabinet
This post was written by my dad. He's really great, and his emails are always solid gold. Nothing has been changed in the transmission of this post from email to blog...random grammar, formatting, and...
View Article5th Sunday in Reaaaally Ordinary Time.
Sometimes, holiness is feeding the hungry in Honduras.Most of the time, it's:maintaining joy while re-hanging clothes at work,silencing the most horrible swears you know when it's nighttime and your...
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“Is she pretty?” “She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”- Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
View ArticleBirthday wish.
Volo quidquid vis,volo quia vis,volo quómodo visvolo quámdiu vis.I want to do what you ask of me:in the way you ask,for as long as you ask,because you ask it.-Oratio Universalisattributed to Pope...
View Articlefrom Henri Nouwen's The Inner Voice of Love
"When you get exhausted, frustrated, overwhelmed or run down, your body is saying that you are doing things that are none of your business. God does not require of you what is beyond your ability,...
View ArticleI am going to love him.
When my family decided to get our first pet without gills in the early '90s, my parents called a family meeting to discuss the responsibilities that accompany a new dog. We talked about the investment...
View ArticleA great many things.
There are a great many things that you think to do when it's time to finish a final exam.In the last three days, I've been tempted to:make and decorate cake popscreate the world's best Pinterest board...
View ArticleCan't even wish it were already tomorrow. (On Grief.)
There's this feeling I've had twice in my life. I think it can only really climb over my limbs in the night, because then you have to stop doing, but your brain can't fully man the wheel and start...
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The One Minute Manager
There is a rule that I have recently implemented into my life. I'm practicing at every possible chance, because Google's finest researchers haven't agreed on how many days it takes to break a habit. I...
View ArticleHello. This is me.
I love those conversation games that people play when they're waiting for a bus, or riding a bus, or waiting for their table to be bussed. "Crowbar," or "Twenty Questions," or "Truth or Dare" (but...
View Article"What will you do with your love?"
Sister Agnes Mary, SV asks this in a YouTube video on vocations.Isn't it a beautiful question?
View ArticleMy family: A life less ordinary
We had family meetings, and listened to records, where I learned to love Sam Cooke, "Red, Red Wine," and "I danced with a dolly with a hole in her stockin' and her knees kept a'knockin' and her toes...
View Articleall i really wanted
"a few years back, as i was driving home from work, i had a silly thought that suddenly turned straight genius on me. i realized that all i really wanted was for my life to be beautiful. i wanted my...
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Unattended children
I have saved a version of this picture for decades that Pinterest has never known. Lovely.
View ArticlePeace within and infinite possibilities
“May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that...
View ArticleEdith Stein tells it well
The soul of a woman is called to be expansive and open to all human beings; it must be quiet, so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile birds;...
View ArticleThink happy thoughts.
In a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy class at Vandy, I listened to the professors speak about how the thoughts in your mind and the feelings in your body changing your behaviors - sometimes in helpful...
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"Fragile! It must be Italian."
I've thought lately about how my new city and my new marriage have underlined for me how easily my heart is bruised, how delicate I really am.Since I began thinking of such things, I have realized that...
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Mercy and Giving: Packed together, shaken down, and overflowing
Jesus said to his disciples:“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.“Stop judging and you will not be judged.Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.Forgive and you will be forgiven.Give...
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“…I wish I liked Catholics more.”“They seem just like other people.”“My dear Charles, that’s exactly what they’re not — particularly in this country, where they’re so few… everything they think...
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Head Over Heels
https://vimeo.com/54228768Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one)...
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