Sometimes the world just feels heavy. Sometimes it seems to me that life just presses down on me like a giant stone, trying to crush all the breath out of me. It feels like I’m the ghost of Jacob Marley dragging around all his chains . . . except sometimes the chains are mine, [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Heavy
Posted in Bible Verse, Everyday, tagged Bible Verse, Easter, Fear, Hope, Jesus, Satan on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Love One Another
Posted in Bible Verse, love, tagged Bible Verses, Catholic, commandment, forgiveness, love on February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I recently have been thinking about forgiveness, as I’ve said in another post. I found this article about St. Francis who in his early life was repelled by the lepers he encountered, and after praying about this God gave him the grace to change his heart so that he could love the most “unlovable.” [...]
Prayer for Priests
Posted in Prayers, tagged Catholic, christian, Prayer, priests on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Almighty God, look upon the face of Him who is the eternal High Priest, and have compassion on Your priests in today’s world. Remember that they are but weak and frail human beings. Stir up in them the grace of their vocation. Keep them close to You lest the enemy prevail against them, so that [...]
Feet Washing
Posted in Bible Verse, Personal, tagged Catholic, disciples, feet washing, forgiveness, Jesus Christ, passover on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lately, I have been thinking about forgiveness. Mostly how I need to forgive others, which I’ve come to realize I’m not so good at. I mean, I always thought I was very good at it and maybe it’s just getting older and you know how things start to not work as well as they used [...]
Rebirth
Posted in Bible Verse, Catholic, Personal on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This evening I was reading Tim Glass’s blog. He has a wonderful series that describes his life and conversion to Catholicism. I loved reading it because he and I have a lot of things in common – I won’t go into everything right now – but it made me remember how exciting and awesome (and [...]
The Rosary
Posted in Prayers, Rosary, tagged Bible Verses, Catholic, Catholicism, Prayers, Rosary on February 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I found this article and I really like all the detail of it. Before I converted to Catholicism, I didn’t understand the Rosary – the repetition of the prayers seemed mindless and bordering on sacrilegious (“And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will [...]
You can’t always get what you want
Posted in Bible Verse, Personal, Prayers, tagged Answered Prayers, Bible Verses, God, Prayer on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can’t always get what you want – but you do get what you need!
I’ve been thinking lately about how God provides for us – how he works all the pieces in everyone’s lives to make things happen and you aren’t even aware that he is doing it. In 2006 I was pregnant and [...]
The Beginning
Posted in Bible Verse, Communion, Personal, tagged Bible Verse, Book of John, Catholicism, communiion, conversion, Faith, Jesus on February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Remember that song from the Sound of Music, I think, “Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start . . .” Well that just popped into my head. Really, when someone asks me about my faith, I never really know where to start. I think truly, it was before I was [...]
