What do those words mean to you when you hear them? Christmas trees and decorations? Christmas shopping and presents? Family, friends, food? A day off from work? How did you celebrate Christmas yesterday? Are you exhausted today and somewhat glad it’s over? Too often that’s what Christmas has become for most of us. My daughter […]
Overcoming Self Doubt Before I had read Isaiah 43:1-7 I had been having doubts if I had made the right choices in my life. My husband and I had moved to New York for me to attend NYU on a full scholarship for my Masters and PhD in Biblical Archaeology. I had gotten Sarcoidosis after
3 Persons 1 God In the coming days I began to feel the presence of not just Jesus but also the Father and the Holy Spirit. When I would just think of them, the lines between them would at times blur and become hazy but when I would feel a presence I could distinguish between
Growing Closer It was Holy Saturday 1994 and I had tried imaging that morning. Now it was later that afternoon and myself, my husband our children and my mother were going to the Easter vigil mass. As we stood outside waiting for the fire to be lit I watched the sunset. Looking at the beauty
After finally being able to make a full surrender to God, committing to him to follow his path for me no matter what, I asked him to give me another chance to do whatever he asked. I felt as if a great weight had been lifted. I was happy again. I could feel Jesus’ presence
Our World… First, as to the present situation with COVID-19 or any natural disaster, this is not God punishing us. God is Love itself and he loves us with an unbelievable, endless, perfect love and calls to us to be close to him. He is all-knowing and knew before he created anything what human beings would
After reading my journal, specifically “Overcoming Doubting Thomas” and recounting some of the events that I posted in March, something occurred to me. As I prayed that evening and thought about those events, the memory of the path that I saw before me when Jesus had held out his hand to me kept coming to