This 26-year-old Catholic woman was having a hard time finding her niche in life when she decided to just let the passion God gave her to create beautiful images lead the way.
Category Archives: Living on Grace
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Joy in Singleness: An inspiring interview with Betsey Sawyer about the Single Life (reposted)
This article was originally published at Grace Filled Mind. It is reprinted below in its original format.
When Life Ends Too Soon: A Mother’s Memoir
Life has a way of hiding the journey ahead for fear that if we knew the future, we would find a reason not to get out of bed. I like to think that a ministering angel is sent by God to cover my eyes so that I do not see too far ahead. If I did, I am afraid that I would be paralyzed with panic and fear. I have found that some crosses in this life seem just too heavy to bear. These crosses have left a scar on my shoulder that never fades. That is the way it was with the birth of our miracle baby, Zachary Luke John.
If not now, when?
Detachment and the Single Life, Part 1
“The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.”
-Saint John Paul II
A Parent’s Greatest Gift to the Church…and the World
“The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. When you see a priest, think of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
-St. John Vianney
My Father’s House: On the Sacredness of Our Places and Spaces
We pulled up to my childhood home in the middle of the night, the Wisconsin green shrouded in darkness. I immediately sensed all the summers of my childhood in the dim stillness as the screen door squeaked shut behind us. Whispering, I led five of my desert-dwelling children upstairs to the bedrooms, each step groaning with a familiar creak in the century-old bungalow.
To Flirt or Not to Flirt?
“The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.”
–St. John Paul II
The Battlefield of Life
“Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must continually aspire.”
-St. Padre Pio
