Never Give Up

There's the Bunny. "Daddy, stop!" You're eating a carrot. You're a Bunny. "No, I'm a girl." A g...

The Church, the living body of Christ, has the mission of prolonging on earth the salvific presence of God, of opening the world to somethin...

Someone posted a quotation today from St. Francis de Sales. At first it felt like a punch in the stomach. How can I ever have a perspective ...

I hear much about different people's sufferings. How do people endure living in this world? The impetus to keep going says something tre...

There he is. The "Thinker"! There is a lot to be said for him (or her, of course--but I will use the masculine pronoun here sinc...

The marriage of heaven and earth, of eternity and history, began in silence, invisible, under the heart of a girl. ...

God's reign is already present on our earth in mystery. When the Lord comes, it will be brought to perfection.   That is the hope that ...

Two weeks until Good Friday. This Lent for me has been marked with a different kind of experience of suffering. It is the stark wonder that ...

I have on this blog more than a year's worth of pondering my life in public, through the medium of words. The blog format encourages the...

Perhaps I'll start doing some video blogs. Videos open a whole new dimension on things. I often talk about my afternoons with Josefina. ...

Lord, I am afraid of sacrifice. I am afraid of suffering. I can't let go of myself. If I just look at myself and try to find a way to gi...

I've thought of a good idea for catching up when I fall behind on the blog: I'll just plagiarize myself!  This is something I posted...

"Heavenly mother, I ask you for the miracle of my healing; if this is not God’s will, I ask you to give me the strength to never gi...

Flare up. Don't worry. It's okay. I'm fine. This is a household in which the husband and father has a disability. People who h...

We really can't live together without forgiveness. And the foundation for forgiveness is the recognition of the fact that the other pe...

This is the official Beatification image of Blessed Chiara "Luce" Badano, who lived the charism of the Focolare movement, and died...

This blog is a place where I reflect on my life, and lay it out there for others to have a look. I have no "strategy" here except ...

The weather continues to be marvelous! This has been the most consistently pleasant winter that I can remember in the middle Atlantic regi...

We should talk to Mary, like the intimate friend she is ready to be for each of us. We can tell her the things in our hearts. She will put o...

Alex is getting bigger. I guess its time for the kids to do another post on "the kitten" who is becoming a full fledged cat. A...