If I'm not off hiding somewhere with a good book, chances are I'm chasing a kid or a dog or sleeping, because every mom can use a nap! I found Prince Charming and married him, and now we enjoy the idiosyncrasies of life in an old farmhouse. Oh yeah, and we root for the Buckeyes. Every time.On Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption. It’s a Holy Day of Obligation here in the United States, and one that I’ve always struggled to understand and internalize. I’ve written about it at Faith and Family Live, but it remains something strange to me, something I’m just not used to. It’s hard to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sorrow'
The Assumption This Year
August 14th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Inspired by Mary, family
Tags: Assumption·Catholic·Faith·family·grief·mary·reflection·sorrow
A Birthday Not Celebrated
June 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Inspired by Mary, family
A Mary Moment Monday post (Yes, I realize this is the second Mary Moment Monday post today. But this is for Susie. I wrote it yesterday and asked her permission to publish it. I hadn’t heard from her this morning, so I scrapped it. She just wrote me, and told me she was touched to [...]
Tags: comfort in grief·family·grief·mary·Mary Moment Monday·sorrow
Looking at Mary from the Cross
February 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Inspired by Mary
What did they say to her, as they watched her watch her Son hanging there, dying? Did they rub her back and watch the tears, unable to hold back their own? Were they able to whisper prayers with her, or was it silent in the midst of the raucous jibing and hilarity of the soldiers? [...]
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The Hard Road
February 8th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Faith, Inspired by Mary, reflection, writing
Part of the Mary Moment Monday series I picture her at the side of the road, dust matting her hair, tears mixing with the noise around her. She had noise all around her: yelling and jeering, wailing and sobbing, grunting and groaning. There was nothing sterile about the experience of watching her Son — innocent, [...]
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Be a Mother to Us Now
January 4th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Inspired by Mary, family
We got the call on a country road. It was just another Sunday, the last day of our Christmas break. We were going to do this or that, watch football, clean up the house, bask and prepare for back-to-normal. But January 3rd would never be “just another Sunday” to us ever again. Normal will forever [...]
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