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Showing posts with label thankfulness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thankfulness. Show all posts
Monday, July 29, 2024

Hiking, Love, and Transformation

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Eight years ago, I hiked in the Tatra mountains. Come to think of it, it was exactly this time of year I was there. The scenery was beautifu...
Sunday, May 07, 2023

Following up on Things Previously Said

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Clearly I don't blog much anymore, so when I do write something, it helps me keep track of my interior landscape all the better. On Apri...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Anxiety

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I struggle with anxiety. Ironically, I am able to say this because most of the time I win this struggle, these days.  In fact, anxiety used ...
Saturday, December 09, 2017

Year of Healing

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The year isn't over with yet, I know. But I have been reflecting on the healing that has come to my life in 2017. It's been a year o...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

Life-Changing Holy Week

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Five years ago, I experienced a Holy Week that changed my life. If I had known at the time what lay ahead of me, I probably would have bolte...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

An Advent Examination of Conscience

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An examination of conscience is very important, but the term is not one I use much. I once thought it required me to mentally castigate and ...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

How in the World Did I Get Here?

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Do you ever have one of those moments where reality flashes before you (in a good way) and you ask yourself "How in the world did I get...
Saturday, January 03, 2015

And This is Why I Love Epiphany

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God frequently seems to use the liturgy and liturgical feasts to teach me personal things. Sometimes the nature of how this works is that so...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

Powerful Moment: Love Without Violence

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A few days before Christmas, I came across this video (if the video doesn't appear, you can try hovering over "Post," or click...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

When Weirdness Gives Way to Delight

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This has been a strange Advent for me thus far. But if ever I have known a peace that surpasses understanding and a joy that makes no earthl...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Reporting from the Bottom of the Pit

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So, it's true: I've been feeling the tug of depression lately, and yesterday pretty much the tug-of-war rope snapped and I fell over...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Graces, Math, Practice and Delight

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I'm not one given to sentimentality, particularly not about things like thankfulness on Thanksgiving. Reality is good, but I often find ...
Saturday, November 08, 2014

Those Parents Who Brought Their Toddlers to Confession Today

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I didn't know them, but then again even if they weren't visitors from another parish I am a little bit out of the parents-of-toddler...
Wednesday, January 01, 2014

May God Bless Us in His Mercy

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Happy New Year! I am beginning this year, in one aspect at least, in the same way I began 2010, and that is with a 54-day rosary novena. I...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

What Happened at Holy Hill

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It's time for another show-and-tell. A week ago we visited the Basilica of National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians , which is other...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

My Year of Faith Sacramental Pilgrimage

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Awhile back a blogger I saw wrote about going on pilgrimage during this Year of Faith to the place where one received ones sacraments. I tuc...
Saturday, June 01, 2013

Been Realizing so Much....

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Every season of my life seems to have its weirdness, but the difference with the current season is that it's the kind of thing that I ca...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

What it Means to Worship God

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I feel like I have been hanging on every word coming from Pope Francis in the month since his election. Just about everything I read intensi...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

The Year I'd Rather Forget... Maybe

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This has been a year that, simply put, I never wish to repeat. In reality it has probably been one of the most important years of my life in...