I don’t shop at Walmart – I haven’t been inside a Walmart in over a decade. I’m someone who much to the exasperation (sometimes) of my family, votes with my money. I know exactly when I decided to never be a Walmart shopper again – it was in 2012 after a fire ripped through a […]
Ash Wednesday is one of my favourite days in the liturgical calendar. As RC kids, we don’t have an outward sign of our faith in the same way as hijabs, niqabs, dastārs, kippahs, and turbans announce the faith of other religions. But on Ash Wednesday, we declare our faith with a smudge of ash on […]
If I always do what I always did, I’ll always get what I always got. These days, I want more than that, so I have to DO more than that.
Several jobs ago, I went on a field trip at work to the print house that published our user guides (in the days of yore when we still printed user guides). They had a post card in their lobby that they produced for a record company or a radio station or something. It had image […]
When my eldest niece was a wee lass, she didn’t want to eat the fruit her mom cut for her. My sister-in-law was getting exasperated at the shrinking list of food the young miss would eat. But Auntie Mary had some skills. I asked my niece if she knew that there was a star hiding […]
If I’m right and truly spun out, deep breaths aren’t so deep, and sleep won’t come. In those moments, being present means the undistracted quiet of prayer.
Eventually you need to take a hard look at the reality of your situation and either decide that you are OK with the mess you made, or make plans and take steps to make it better.
Joseph chose faith over fear. He became a father to a child that wasn’t his, he protected his family from those who wished them poor fortune at best, and death at worst. That sounds like a pretty great mentor to me.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, friends! There’s a serenity prayer that most people know in one form or another: Give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be helped, and the insight to know the one from the other (Reinhold Niebuhr). Sometimes things that must be altered are so big […]
A few weeks back, I was talking to a friend who was starting a new job. I mentioned that I could hardly believe that I’ve been at the same job for almost 7 years. We talked about how important it is to find joy in your vocation and to genuinely like what you are doing. […]
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