Prayer
Empty Me, Fill Me, Use Me
During Lent, the Hallow app has been focusing on the simple prayer, “Empty me, Fill me, Use me.” The first 4 weeks, the challenge was to empty ourselves from the things that keep us from allowing God fully into our hearts and lives. Last week we were encouraged to then ask God to fill us […]
Welcomed In
After the retreat yesterday, I went to Mass, then to the grocery store since it was supposed to be a snowy day today. By the time I got home, I was pretty tired. I had some dinner and fell asleep on the sofa. I woke up a little after midnight and saw that I had […]
Illuminate
Yesterday I went to a women’s retreat at a local parish. I had seen advertising for the Lent retreat in the past, but have never been able to go. This was the first retreat I had been on in about 15 years and I didn’t really know what to expect. When I arrived, there were […]
Lenten Food
Today my son and his wife started on a road trip. They are visiting some south-eastern states to see if they may want to move there. They have talked for a couple years about living in a smaller community, especially now that our city has gotten so big and expensive. I talked to them for […]
Prayerful Neighbors
As I was outside welcoming my neighbor home, another neighbor joined us. She had shared the story of her husband’s emergency surgery on our neighborhood prayer email. He had heart surgery last week, then starting having pain in his legs. It turns out that he had blood clots in both legs. The hospital he was […]
Reason for Healing
I was happy to see another feast day celebrating Our Lady of Lourdes. Today I recounted my own miracle story to a couple who had not heard it. They talked about their own experience visiting Lourdes. Today they were praying for a young woman they know who is battling cancer, going into her 4th round […]
Beautiful Prayer
Today a friend shared a prayer from yesterday’s prayer group that I missed. I loved it. “Dear Father, you, our Lord and God, are so amazing and you bring us so many gifts. I ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit in our lives so we may have the strength and courage to be […]
Honoring and Remembering
It is difficult to believe that my dad died 4 years ago today. For the past few weeks I have been thinking about him a lot and dreaming about him. Most of my dreams continue the saga of how I was unable to care for him during the last several months of his life and […]
A Catholic Funeral
Today I heard from a woman who I know from a prayer group. She has a friend who recently died. While her friend knew many people in the community, she didn’t know many Catholics. Her funeral is coming up and it will be in the Catholic Church. The woman asked the group if anyone else […]
Message to Pray
I was so happy to be able to spend some time in Eucharistic Adoration this morning. There was almost an overwhelming sense of peace as I was aware of God’s Presence in that moment and in my life. While I was there, my son texted that he will be having a final interview tomorrow for […]
Still Finding God 