After a particularly difficult day of second grade for my oldest son this year, I was walking him to the car hoping to provide some encouraging words to combat the rain pouring outside and inside of both of us. I began to tell him tidbits about his new school. “You...
After a particularly difficult day of second grade for my oldest son this year, I was walking him to the car hoping to provide some encouraging words to combat the rain pouring outside and inside of both of us. I began to tell him tidbits about his new school. “You...
Have you ever seen DaVinci’s work The Adoration of the Magi San Donato in Scopeto? The most fascinating thing about this artwork to me is that it is unfinished. Leonardo DaVinci had thirty months to complete this altarpiece for the Augustinian friars, but before he...
I have found over the years that prayer can be a mixed bag - sometimes it can be easy, straightforward, and abounding in grace. Other times, many times in fact, it can be difficult, confusing, and bring forward even more questions along the way. It is easy to keep...
Over the Christmas break I picked up a very old habit - drawing. I think the last time I tried to really draw something other than a quick sketch of a cartoon animal for my sons was college. I forgot how much I loved it. I also forgot how scary it was to put pencil...
Don’t give up on yourself because I will not give up on you. This simple phrase to me is the most important “yes” I have ever had to say in motherhood. The yes to not give up on figuring out exactly what my children need to thrive in this world. The yes to being...
Have you ever struggled to see yourself in another person? It was December 2017, less than a month after my son first received his hearing aids. We were taking a very last minute family staycation in a hotel in downtown Dallas. It had only been a few weeks so my...
This month’s blog series is “Uniquely Created." Last month we spoke about Gathering the graces. God graces us with all we need to be the person God uniquely created us to be. If we internalize and believe and trust that we are in fact uniquely created, uniquely...
This month’s blog series is “Gathering the Graces”. St. Ignatius invites us to ask God for a grace each time we pray. This month, blog contributors will share stories about the graces God has given them and where God is leading them. One night in mid-August, I...
This month's blog series focuses on the grace we pray for in the second week of the Spiritual Exercises: to know, to love, and to follow Jesus. Today as we end this series, Gretchen Crowder shares with us how we need to be vulnerable in order to change and grow....
