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When I Left
When I left, I realized that my family is always with me.
A House of Wind
Children are windy people, if you let them. What I actually craved was a house filled with wind, a Pentecost home.
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Looking at the Sky
To be an Easter people isn’t only a lived resurrection, it’s also a lived stunned shock at an ascension. Some days defy comprehension.
Hinge Moments in Marriage
We don’t often recognize the miracle of continuity. Normally we don’t see how everything hinges on a decision we’re making.
New (again)
If you want to feel like a holy fool, then learn how to pray in gratitude for the newness of a washed pan. I feel like a fool every time I do it. I hope…
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A Smelly Motherhood
When we smell like our sons, we’ll willingly surrender them to God because He loves them the best. It’s not that a sacrificial mother learns how to…
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Repetitions of Love
I would pay good money for more times in this life when I get an hour to pour out verbal praise to my daughter about her beauty.
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Finding the Practice of Eastertide
I’ve gotten the rhythm of the 40 days of Lent spent in contemplation of suffering, sin, and death, but I think I need to work on the contemplation of…
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Bet on Easter Morning
I’m taking the bet on the long game. I might not know what Jesus is up to, the women on Easter morning certainly didn’t, but I know He’s up to something…
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Is It Worth It?
Jesus takes a long, meandering, week-long path straight to the Cross, and He’s with us every step of the way as we walk some version of that path in our…
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Putting Down the Stone
Again and again, I find myself mentally tearing down my motherly work. I can’t stop. Call it ingrained. Call it original sin. I look at the stone, heavy…
Leaving the Desert
I wonder if, like me, the Israelites saw that it’s good to stop wandering and still felt off-kilter at the same time.
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Eating Fig Leaves or Burning Forever
Finding Satiety
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Committed to the Unknowns
The immediate place where God wants to be with us is in that humility. He gifts us smoke, because, as we cough and sputter, we’re forced to let go of…
Little Conversations
Little Conversations
A weekly publication for Catholic Motherhood, inspired by St. Thérèse of Lisieux's spirituality of the Little Way. This is a place for a practical theology of motherhood, deepening and widening our faith through conversations grounded in the Scriptures.
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