Is there an area (or areas) in your life in which you are making progress? It doesn’t matter if it’s in taking place in leaps and bounds or little by ...
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Absent Without Leave: Learning to Live With My Gadabout Grandparents
by Kate Moriarty | My children's grandparents have become wild gadabouts. It started with a caravan.
Read More »How Has God Changed Your Life?
There’s an old saying that goes something like this: I might not be where I need to be but thank God Almighty, I’m sure not where I used to be! ...
Read More »Mary the “Spouse of the Holy Spirit”: Blasphemy or Biblical?
by Dave Armstrong | Having a child conceived by the Holy Spirit has no direct analogy, because it was a one-time extraordinary event, in order to bring about the incarnation.
Read More »What’s Your Favorite And Least Favorite Day Of The Week?
What is your favorite day of the week? Write down everything that you love about this particular day. What do you usually do on this day that makes is so ...
Read More »Showing Mercy: How to Become More Christ-Like by Simple Acts of Mercy
by Emily Molitor | The Good Samaritan parable gives us an example of how to show pity, or mercy, to our fellow human beings.
Read More »Keeping Up With The Joneses
Do you sometimes feel tremendous pressure to “keep up with the Joneses” in certain areas of your life? If so, what are those areas? Write down in your journal exactly ...
Read More »Teacher Service Day: How I Do It the Homeschool Way!
Mary Ellen Barrett started practicing 'Teacher Service Day' for homeschool moms. It's a 4-step, all-day-Friday process that refreshes home and homeschool.
Read More »True Courage
Most people believe that courage is the absence of fear. This, however, is simply not true. True courage is doing something in spite of the fear. Are there things that ...
Read More »“Hello God, Are You Up There?” When He ‘Doesn’t Answer’ Our Prayers… or Does He?
by Lorraine Espenhain | Our prayers will be answered by God, not because we have succeeded in getting God to see things our way, but because He has succeeded in changing our hearts
Read More »What People Think
Do you worry too much about what other people think of you? If so, how might this tendency be causing stress in your life – stress which God never intended ...
Read More »What If Pope Francis’ Translators Translated Other Stuff In History?
by John Clark | Pope Francis is one of the most mistranslated people in the history of the world.
Read More »Have You Lost Something?
Has something within you been destroyed – something that God never wanted you to lose? What is it? What led to its demise? How did you get to this place ...
Read More »Celebrating Advent in a World that Can’t Wait for Christmas
by Christine Smitha | Around the world, many of the best Advent traditions carry the idea of the hidden seed, a hidden seed of faith and charity we nurture...
Read More »Talking Ourselves Out Of Everything
Do you have a tendency to talk yourself out of everything? One minute, inspiration hits, and you have an enthusiastic desire to do such and such. But as soon as ...
Read More »Seasons Of Loss
Sometimes God allows us to go through seeming seasons of loss in order to move us into greater gains. He removes us from situations that we love, i.e., places, people, ...
Read More »Keep the Backdoor Shut! How We Supplement Seton With Catholic Children’s eBooks
What you read matters! What your children read matters! Lets start with two quotes from Don Bosco. “Never read books you aren’t sure about… even supposing that these bad books ...
Read More »Guilt
Do you struggle with guilt? Feeling guilty has its proper place, as it is used by the Spirit of God to lead us to confession and repentance. But once Christ ...
Read More »My Simple Kitchen: 7 Small Appliances That Make A BIG Difference
by Abby Sasscer | Below is my top seven list of small appliances that make a big difference in my kitchen.
Read More »Acceptance
We’re all familiar with that now-famous prayer which begins with the words, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change…” What is it in your life ...
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