It’s funny how sometimes God knows exactly what you need. Turns out what I needed was the last thing I wanted to do. As I had mentioned, I spent the weekend in Anaheim at the Religious Education Congress. I had two big events on the schedule: I was coordinator for the Lamentations Liturgy on Friday [...]
Posts Tagged ‘death’
14 Mar
These Are Some of the Ways I Heal
Unloading and stacking 8′ beams of wood… Planting apple and cherry trees… Putting the final touches on our fence and getting it ready to paint… Getting our raised beds ready for planting… Watching the land anxiously as it foretells of Spring… Spending quiet moments with my husband.
11 Mar
Miscarriage
I thought a lot about whether or not to post about such a sensitive and personal topic. But in the end, I decided that this is a blog about seeking the sacred–in the joyful and terribly painful moments of life. I’ve written a lot about joyful things–although every once in a while I have shared [...]
9 Oct
Never the Same
I’m sorry I haven’t been on for a few days. I, along with the community of Loyola Marymount University, am mourning the loss of one of our most beloved family members: Sr. Peg Dolan. Sr. Peg was one of the best mothers I knew, and she never had any biological children. She remembered the names [...]
26 Aug
Death in a Faith of Life
As I finished typing the last few words of an outline for a talk I’ll be giving in a month and a half, I felt a the creaks of a body that had been sitting for far too long today in front of a computer. The weather was beautiful and the sun was calling me outdoors, [...]
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.
