Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
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To Know Christ Jesus
by FJ Sheed I read this book for...
14 May 2023
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
Should I Use My In-Laws’ House as Free Storage? A Dialogue between Husband and Wife
After putting a load of laundry on in the basement, I sat down across from my husband at the dining room table. “It looks like a Crate and Barrel down there.” My husband politely put his bookmark in the book he was reading and set it on the table, readying himself to...
The Mustard Seed
Matthew 13: 31-32, Mark 4: 30-32, Luke 13: 18-19 And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yes when...
The Wheat and the Weeds
Matthew 13: 24-30 Another parable he put before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. So when the plants came up and...
How to Broach Difficult Subjects with a Husband: an Absurd Fiction
I’ve tried several methods of broaching difficult subjects with my husband over the course of our marriage. I’ve tried talking to him directly about them. This is the method most often suggested by people with “degrees” or “long marriages.” I have to say, I don’t...
The Sower
Matthew 13:1-9, Mark 4: 1-9, Luke 8: 4-8 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in...
Take Them a Meal, They Said. It Will Be Fun, They Said.
On occasion I’d see sign-ups to take new moms a meal in my mom’s group but I never participated for two reasons: I had a very hairy dog and was paranoid some dog hair might make its way into the food, a social faux pas few can come back from. I’m not a great cook and...
The Builders
Matt 7: 24-27 Luke 6: 47-49 “Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it...
The Parables Project Introduction
One Easter, I bought a children's book of the New Testament parables to read aloud to the kids. All went well until they started asking questions. Well, really, one question. After each parable they'd say, "What does that mean?" I wasn't sure what they meant. Some...
Sometimes Lent Comes Looking for You
The first couple of Lents after my reversion to the Catholic faith were pretty intense. I undertook fasting diets that would have made Gandhi look like a glutton. I had prayer goals that the Seraphim wouldn’t have been able to keep up with. The pile of books I...