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hgtv and making a soul a home

What makes a house into a home? The answer is that someone has to live in it. Let Christ make a home in your heart. Let him remain a permanent resident and not someone who pays rent. He is the only one that can make us whole.

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so you used to be a church kid . . .

You probably went on the retreats. Did the service trips. Sang the songs (and even knew the hand motions). Maybe you even wore some Jesus swag on your neck or wrist (remember those cool saints bracelets?) You went to Church. You prayed before meals a...

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5 ways i insert more prayer into my busy life

5 Ways I Insert More Prayer into My Busy Life

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god loves them more than you

Learning to trust that God will take care of those who suffer, even if it is not the outcome we want.

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seasons

Working through different seasons in your spiritual Life

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when everything feels like a desert, prayer is labor

Learning to keep persevering when your your spiritual life feels dry.

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going beyond babel

We should never build metaphorical towers by putting more energy into social media, news pundits and politicians instead of our relationship with God. I also find it so interesting that the story of the Tower of Babel can be interpreted as God wantin...

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seeking jesus in the daily grind

The beauty of believing in an all-good, all-loving God is having confidence that any suffering He doesn't heal, He uses to accomplish something even greater.

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stories over labels

If we want to build and repair relationships, we have to be able to choose stories over labels. We have to see the person in front of us as God’s beloved, as God’s son and daughter, as our brother and sister.

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canon law meets the internet

I have seen God work in the moments that vulnerability is met with compassion. I have become more holy through gentle conversations that led me to conversion. Likewise, I have been completely turned away from what is good for me when preached in a fi...

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jesus, use my messy family please

Placing Christ at the center of our lives during these ugly, frightening, or confusing moments is exactly what makes them beautiful times of growth in holiness that can only be fully appreciated in retrospect. Continuing to pray when our crosses that...

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sr. eva regina martin ssf: well done good and faithful servant

Sr. Eva worked out of faith and love. She was proud of her heritage as an African American woman. She was proud of her religious community, the Sisters of the Holy Family. She was also proud about being Catholic. All these things were intertwined in ...

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reflections on hurricane harvey

In the midst of tragedy, God tells us to continue to live and promote life and keep on keepin' on. And we can't do that alone.

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taking our identity in christ, not politics

The complexities of what it means to be a Christian and practice religion in this country have always been complex and at times problematic. Even though politics and religion have been enmeshed with one another from our country’s origins, something a...

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what i learned about white privilege on my summer vacation

It’s an incredibly nuanced conversation, this thing called Race. I do, however, believe that we have all the resources we need to help turn the tide of racism in our country. Those resources are things like compassion, empathy, listening, and advocac...

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when jesus is your job

When Jesus is your job, you run the risk of reducing Jesus to a job, not God. Not a perfect, divine savior. Just like every job can become mundane, so can a Jesus job. 

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the dichotomy of organ donation

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the dichotomy of organ donations. How one family’s worst day is another’s best day, how one’s worst nightmare is another’s answered prayer. How unfair that it is, how confusing, and in some ways, how beautiful th...

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let your kids see you

I want my kids to know that you can be a super faith-filled person and also have other interests. How can we expect our kids to want to be well-rounded active people if we can’t model it?

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where can we go to find the 'better part'?

Whatever God is calling us to do, He is calling us to do it with a spirit of joy and a spirit of gratitude. He is always calling us to define who we are and why we are here, living this life, by His love for us, not our accomplishments or our amazing...

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jesus in the flu

When I fail to maintain that connection to God, it really should come as no surprise that the worries and pains of this world somehow suddenly seem overwhelming and insurmountable, and even hopeful good things in my life seem colored by a gray negati...