***In addition to my Ash Wednesday reflection below, here’s some beautiful thoughts written by my wonderful husband***
This essay started out as my own reflection on Lenten observance, but now that I’ve read my wife’s excellent post, I have reshaped some of the things I originally wrote. Most of my best ideas spring from the conversations [...]
Archive for February, 2009
25 Feb
Ashes to Ashes…
25 Feb
Ash Wednesday
Sorry I have been MIA lately. It’s that point in the quarter again when things start getting hectic.
Just a few short thoughts about Ash Wednesday and Lent. You hear a lot around this time in the liturgical season about things you can “give up” for Lent–chocolate, coffee, alcohol, etc. This is a practice that, for [...]
7 Feb
School Update
I realize I haven’t written much about school lately, so I’ll give a quick update.
I just got through two midterms on Wednesday–killer! I had tests for Medieval/Reformation History and Pentateuch back-to-back, which equaled about 4 hours straight of writing essays. I don’t think I have had hand cramps like that in a loooooong time! Now, [...]
7 Feb
True Worth
It’s easy these days to get caught up in the doomsday lamenting about wall street and recession. It’s even easier to get overly anxious about where our money will come from, where it will go, and how we will keep that flow continuing. Yet I want to allow for a brief break from those fears [...]
3 Feb
The Value of Work
One of the themes we’re discussing in our social justice prayer group at the moment is the dignity of work and workers’ rights. Yet this has also been a theme in my own mind lately–albeit with a slightly different perspective. I’ll explain more about my perspective in a second.
One of the things I have thought [...]
Just a joyful Catholic girl trying to live as simply and consciously and gratefully as possible in this beautiful, amazing world...and bringing as many as possible along for the ride.