Minutes to Moments

Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.  Matthew 6: 8
Jesus reassures us today that our prayer with God is a quiet, personal relationship which will not be enhanced by the amount of words we use.  Rather, we’re invited to sit quietly with God and trust our hearts to Him.  How often do [...]

Beloved:
Tend the flock of God in your midst.  1 Peter 5:2
Mother Teresa reminds us:  “We can do no great things-only small things with great love.”
As mothers busy about the business of life, we sometimes wonder if what we do is “enough.” 
Yesterday at church my almost-10-year-old daugther took my hand and studies our palms.  She adjusted [...]

This, rather, is the fasting that I wish:
releasing those bound unjustly,
untying the thongs of the yoke;
Setting free the oppressed,
breaking every yoke;
Sharing your bread with the hungry,
sheltering the oppressed and the homeless;
Clothing the naked when you see them,
and not turning your back on your own.
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and your wound shall [...]

Today I have set before you
life and prosperity, death and doom.
I call heaven and earth today to witness against you:
I have set before you life and death,
the blessing and the curse.
Choose life, then,
that you and your descendants may live. Deuteronomy 30:15, 19
This Thursday of the week of Ash Wednesday brings us Moses’ passionate plea to [...]

Lent is the time to open our hearts to this love. Let’s clear away the clutter of distractions and creature comforts and create a space in our lives to get reacquainted with God. Moms, welcome this season as a time to nurture the most important relationship in your life. Take a few moments everyday and spend them in God’s loving presence. “Return to me with your whole heart,” says the Lord, and see what his love can do in your life.

“If I ever tell you I want to hold a garage sale again, please slap me.”

Her heart pounded as she waited for the starter’s signal, and so did mine. Early on, she sat quietly between events, reading her book or watching the others line up for their races. I kept checking, wanting to reassure her, but knowing the only way she’d find her place in this group was [...]

Did you hear the news about the people who were hurt and killed at Walmart yesterday?  It breaks my heart for their families.
I’ve only been out shopping in the pre-dawn hours of Black Friday once, and my experience was very different.  My family and I drove from St. Louis to Allen, Texas (outside Fort Worth) [...]

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.  Hebrews 13:2
The kind stranger sitting next to me would be a dear friend by the end of the day.
Yesterday I sat in a booth at a trade show next to the cashier.  Her daughter-in-law was one [...]

“Let those who are friendly with you be many, but let your advisers be one in a thousand.”  Sirach 6:6
Choose your friends wisely.  Life has shown how fleeting some friendships can be.  We can be easily hurt by someone we once considered a confidant.  So, while we will meet many people in a lifetime, only [...]