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This blog features personal essays, which are a sweet mix of the secular and sacred.

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Some days the creative practice becomes stalemated. Recently, I had such a day. I warmed up for a writing session with journaling and devotions. From there, I turned to the blank page and willed new content to come through me to the page. I started by writing down the date, ...

I often mentioned my day job, briefly alluding to it being a pesky nuisance in my otherwise charming life. Truth is, my work there was an answered prayer at a time in my life when I needed the routine and predictability of work. Also true, I put my heart into ...

A friend old enough to have been in my circle for several decades recently had the following four words of wisdom for me: New chapter, same book. So while, we can’t start a whole new book at midlife, there is always room for a new chapter. This chapter for me ...

This steeple’s days are numbered. A group of historic preservationists are attempting to convince church leaders to keep the building. This parish had merged with other small Catholic congregations about twenty years ago. Other church buildings from the group have been converted to Community Use buildings – a housing administration, ...

Habits are hard to make and easy to break. Pre-pandemic had a weekly habit of attending worship. When safety measures were needed, and our church joined the country in shuttering its doors, I lost the habit. Oh, I tried to form a new habit of online worship, but the weekly ...

I’m too hard. Mostly, I am too hard on myself. I was raised to confess my sins and to need salvation from my wicked ways. Oh, there was much more beauty and love than that in my Catholic traditions, but that subtle upshot was constant and powerful during my formative ...

It is the season of graduation. As parents we say, “where did the time go?” As teenagers and young adults, we say, “Finally! This took forever!” The more years behind us, the faster time seems to move past us. It’s funny. We can’t store it or stop it. It does ...

We tend to think of anniversaries as accomplishments. We mark them mentally as we remember the day when it began. Marriage anniversaries make us think of our wedding day and love we have shared each year since. Work or other service anniversaries remind us changes we have worked through and ...

I’m talking about the good kind of trouble. That innocent fun that comes early with eyes full of wonder exploring the mundane and magnificent with equal valor. Picture below is my cousin’s three-year-old son visiting our newest addition! A nine-week old Labrador Retriever. Toddlers and puppies! The very best kind ...

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