January 2011
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Hindsight
I don’t remember last New Year. I think I was too anxious.
I began my last semester of undergrad.
I attended Grace Banquet.
The same night Steven and I began talking again.
The same night I said a temporary goodbye to many friends.
The same night, I stayed up on the phone with Steven and we were able to say a lot of much needed words. We laughed. We caught-up on each others lives. I...
December 2010
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snowcream.
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we each got a kindle for christmas.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his...
– Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
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It’s christmas eve.
Steven and I are staying the night at my parents house. Mom and Dad bought us new pajama pants for tonight. My little brother and I have a family tradition of always sleeping in the same room on christmas eve so that whoever wakes up first will then wake the other up and together we’ll shout and threaten our parents that we’re going to go open presents...
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“God creates the vine and teaches it to draw up water by its roots and, with the aid of the sun, to turn that water into a juice which will ferment and take on certain qualities. Thus every year, from Noah’s time till ours, God turns water into wine. That, men fail to see.”
__ C.S. Lewis, Miracles
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Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.
– Dorothy Day
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Conversations with a Friar/Catholic Priest
I’ve recently mentioned my need to make note of a few significant events over the course of the last couple weeks.
That being said:
My husband and I experienced divine providence with regard to our flight to New York for our honeymoon. We had the privilege of sitting next to Father Christopher, a friar/catholic priest residing in New York. We had noticed him (i.e., he was dressed in...
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At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep,
For you, God, have put my life back...
– Psalm 4:8
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