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I only saw his face for the first time today and already I’m smitten. 

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Today was one of those days I had to wake up and choose joy rather than despair. Yesterday our country elected a man who believes the current contents of my uterus (a 12 week baby) does not need protection. It grieves my heart to no end. I used to have a bit [...]

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I’ve been commissioned by Our Lord for a very special assignment and believe me when I say it WON’T involve running! Typically, assignments such as this have an initial phase of about 9 months and then a lifetime after that. Sometimes, however, the assignment ends a bit sooner and a bit differently than [...]

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Thank you to everyone who has offered prayers for our family.  We lost my father-in-law on Monday, St. Patrick’s Day.  That same day, my own husband was hospitalized for a small bowel obstruction.  (He is recovering nicely.) As one of our fine priests said, the Lord has given my family our own “Lent” to walk [...]

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My family could really use a “Lazarus, come out” type of moment. Right now, my father-in-law – a vibrant, active, healthy, 77 year old man – lay in critical care after suffering a brain injury yesterday…..while playing tennis. Yes, that’s right, he was playing tennis. I would never have believed it’s possible [...]

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…..this would be an angelic choir.” So, says Jaden at Steamy Kitchen, anyway, and I have to agree with her. I apologize for this totally random, and uncharacteristic-for-this-blog, tangent but this bread it so completely amazing that I cannot keep it to myself. That’s what this blog is about isn’t [...]

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“You are rich”, said the smiling, little Ukrainian lady to me as she admired my 4 runninggals and served out samples of seven layer dip today at Sam’s Club.
“No money, just children”, she continued.
As I walked away teary-eyes, I agreed with her. Yes, seven-layer-dip-lady, I AM rich. You have no idea how rich [...]

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All I’ll add is DITTO! 

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We’ve been caught up with living life lice around here. That’s not a typo. We really have been fighting a major lice infestation as much as I hate to admit it. I’d like to be able to tell you we got ourselves into this pesky predicament serving in a third world country [...]

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