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Pure Selflessness
A friend of mine shared a beautiful story about her generous and loving daughter. She allowed me to share the story as well: There is a homeless man that stands on the side of the highway. We pass him all the time and give him food, gift cards, money here and there and sometimes drinks. […]
Finding Waldo
This morning I opened my favorite Hallow app and listened to a meditation on today’s scripture reading for Mass. The reflection by biblical scholar Jeff Cavins likened our search for God with looking for Waldo in the Where’s Waldo books. He relayed 7 benefits of finding Waldo and how they were the same as the benefits […]
Cookies For Compassion
One of our neighbors and her granddaughters had a lemonade and cookie stand today. The older granddaughter had the idea to raise money for a charity. Her grandmother has been sponsoring a young woman in Haiti through Compassion International since she was 10 years old. She had pictures of her from when she was a […]
Faith Through Struggles
This afternoon I was able to talk with my neighbor to find out how his wife was doing. She has been in the hospital, having had surgery over a week ago. While she is getting better in one way, she is still struggling in others. He doesn’t yet know when she may be able to […]
Appropriate Saint
I regularly listen to prayers and podcasts on the Hallow app. Today a new series started about the lives of different saints. The one they started with was St. Sebastian who is the patron saint of athletes. The story is being read by John Mazzulla who is the head coach of the Boston Celtics. Only […]
Brother-in-law Angel
Today was my brother-in-law’s birthday. He has been working diligently to finish clearing out their apartment so he can move out to the east coast. My sister moved out there almost a year ago as their retirement house was ready sooner than they anticipated. Their plan was for my brother-in-law to finish up his job […]
Same But Different
Today a far away friend called who I have known for many years. As we were talking, we decided we met about 20 years ago when my youngest son was about 10. When we would get together at that time, we mostly talked about our kids, our faith and our struggles. Many times we would […]
God’s Care
I have been talking with a counselor on a regular basis, which I find is very helpful for me to sort out some of the thoughts on my head. Today I talked about how God has always taken care of me. There have been several times in my life when I have faced difficult challenges […]
Blessed Invitation
Quite a while ago, my son was able to purchase tickets for the Olympics. He and his fiancee left for their big trip a couple days ago. They decided to spend some time in Rome before heading over to Paris for their ticketed events. I knew they were planning on going to Mass at the […]
Worldwide Prayers
My neighbor has been very ill for several weeks. She was home for a while, but her husband took her back to the hospital a couple of days ago. He said they were afraid that she might have a blood infection – sepsis. I knew that would be a very serious diagnosis. I woke very […]
Still Finding God 