Essays
Creating “Easy Buttons” for Your Spiritual, Physical, and Mental Health
Do you remember those big, red “Easy” buttons that Staples used to use in commercials? The...
Love Will Carry Us Through: Finding Healing in Marriage
When we are young and we fall in love we believe that everything will work out. That our love will...
September Members: Reclaiming Order Week One
Welcome to week one!
The Whole Hearted Woman: Healing for Mind and Body
Women tend to do things with their whole heart. We tend not to merely dip our toes in the water. It’s common to be ‘all or nothing’. We either do a thing and pursue it with a strength of conviction that will carry us through dark stormy days. Or we don’t. Unfortunately for our health we tend not to spend a lot of time on how we can support our bodies; these temples of the Holy Spirit that the Lord has entrusted to our care. As a result we are depriving the Church of our ability to live out our mission, something the Church desperately needs.
Embracing the Messy of Discernment: Four Things I’ve Learned
I was 31 years old and had just moved back home. I left my consecrated community and found myself starting over. Chatting with a younger friend after Mass one day, I told her that I was trying to figure out my calling. She responded innocently, “Weren’t you supposed to do that a long time ago?”
What God Wants
I lie awake, listening to my husband slowly drifting off, gently snoring, rosary beads wrapped loosely around my fingers. Soon the snoring won’t be so gentle. A soft tap on the shoulder and he will turn over, opening up his airway to rhythmic breathing again. This is...
Maintaining Interior Peace: Catholic Quotes for Peace
Preserve peace of heart.
Do Men Really Just Marry the Next Girl Who Comes Along?
We all remember the scene from When Harry Met Sally (1989): Sally finds out that her long-term boyfriend not only moved quickly, but got engaged to a woman in his office. Sally’s left sobbing as she recalls her belief that Joe had no desire for marriage, and hence,...
3 Ways to Honor the Sacred Heart this June
June belongs to a Humble Heart.