Now that my dad’s firmly on the road to recovery, can I beg you to join me in praying for my friend Dwija and her baby. So, basically there has been no change. The amniotic sac has not healed, so I continue to leak whatever new fluid is...
My dad at his usual place in front of his computer this afternoon. My dad went home today!!! Mom writes: After going in to ICU Monday with no speech and right side paralyzed, to think that he has progressed so far so quickly as to be home playing...
CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith ON THE THIRD DAY by Will Duquette The Creed says, “he suffered death and was buried and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.” When Melanie asked me...
1. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom Loved it. Read my thoughts here 2. Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life by Elizabeth Scalia This is such a great book. But I’m reading slowly, deliberately. I don’t want to rush...
Well, things are looking really good. The kids and I had a video chat with my dad this afternoon. Oh how wonderful to see his smile and hear his “I love you” and oh he was saying everyone’s names. I could tell he was frustrated...
This is part two of the CatholicMom.com discussion of Forming Intentional Disciples. Here’s this week’s prompt: In her first chapter of Forming Intentional Disciples, Sherry Weddell describes with detailed statistics the crisis of...
Things are looking really good today. His paralysis on the right side is gone and he even stood up. He’s able to eat and drink—oh he was happy about that as he hadn’t eaten since Sunday night. They moved him out of the ICU tonight...
My dad had a stroke while swimming this morning… My mom writes: Good people saw and pulled him out, called 911 and then one came to the hospital to tell us exactly what happened, came and waited till Stephen [my brother] and i were there and...
1. Two years ago my parents brought some iris bulbs from their garden, offspring of bulbs I had planted when I was a teen, and I planted them in this little bed I created. Along the edge I also put in some lupine seeds. Most of them didn’t...
Blessed Feast of the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ! From a work by Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest O precious and wonderful banquet! Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature...
