Look to God and Live… Joyfully!

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love it above all others. I don’t fully know why, either. It was such a favorite that I convinced Ben to get married on Thanksgiving weekend and for 22 years thereafter the holiday had extra reasons to be celebrated. This…

I was in the middle of writing a post about St. Cecilia Day – a feast day honoring the patron saint of music – when the horrifying news from Waukesha, Wisconsin began breaking. News of someone driving an SUV through a family-oriented community Christmas parade causing mass casualties is such a horrific tragedy that writing…

Today is Halloween – the much-loved holiday of ghosts and goblins and other mischievous supernatural beings. What may have begun in the realms of deeply held superstitions has evolved to a time of masquerade and candies. In much of the Christian world, however, it is tomorrow – and the following day – that have the…

This week I had a super fun opportunity: Elizabeth’s vacuum had quit working and I had the extreme fun of trying to fix it. Remember, I’m not particularly mechanically minded, but I was determined. I looked and everything seemed fine at first glance. I tried the old suction-on-the-arm test and the suction seemed just fine,…

Sometimes you learn, or relearn, the greatest truths from the most unusual places. This has been such a week for me. On Wednesday I went to an immersive experience with Van Gogh paintings. Before getting to the paintings there were quotes and historical facts about the painter that touched me in rather profound ways. Vincent…