Today is the Feast of a Saint who had visions of Jesus and His Sacred Heart. This month of October, The Church emphasizes the great needed to respect life, the sanctity of every human heartbeat. In a few weeks, my family will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of my father’s successful open heart surgery, when […]
My nephew is getting married this weekend. (My nephew is getting married this weekend!?!) In trying to figure out what to write in their card with my gift to them, this kind-of-sort-of poem kind-of-sort-of slipped out. (Writing skills are escaping me at the moment.) I have no way of knowing what the future holds for […]
Because I’m so very physically weak due to my progressive neuromuscular disease, I want to be very strong emotionally, as well as intellectually and spiritually. I am dependent upon others for every daily act of survival, therefore, I strive to be self-reliant when it comes to emotional struggles. But I’m only human. Human beings need […]
The end of summer is always a busy time, isn’t it? From harvesting to beginning school to preparing for cold weather, there’s always something for us humans to do. Okay. That was my way of saying I didn’t take the time to write a post for this first Thursday of September. I had one going, […]
Jesus said to His beloved disciple, “There is your mother” and the beloved disciple took Mary into his home. If we all want to be Jesus’s beloved disciple, should we not also see His blessed mother as ours and take her into our homes? Although I have sometimes struggled with the Marian devotion of some […]
Bible Bursts 