A friend was trying to discern whether or not to start homeschooling her children and she asked for my thoughts on my experiences as a homeschooler. She asked at probably the worst part of the homeschooling cycle – at the end of the school year. The kids and I are both so done with it and yet…
“She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. “ – the Misfit from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor In Flanner O’Connor’s fiction, grace often enters the lives of her characters in a shocking manner. “In the land of…
Dr. Tim Gray of the Augustine Institute referred to the Ascension of Our Lord as “completing the circuit.” I thought it an excellent metaphor and it set me to thinking it through further. Perhaps many in our non-agrarian culture would miss the relevance of Jesus referring to Himself as the vine and all his talk about grafting…
I am not an emotional person. In fact, I think I am best described as having a cold, dead heart. A heart of stone would also be apt. I have always been this way. I can’t remember a time when it was not difficult for me to conjure up emotion. I was never bothered by my lack of emotion,…
Lent is coming. It’s a time of prayer, almsgiving and—what it’s probably most known for—fasting. The week preceding Ash Wednesday, a question pops into the heads of Catholics. What shall I give up for Lent? There are the usual sacrifices: giving up chocolate or soda, taking cold showers, fasting from caffeine , etc. But for some, the same old sacrifices…
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