by marybeth | Apr 6, 2020 | Life, Reflections
My relationship with Jesus has always been a constant even from my early years. I was always mothering someone or something. I remember as a little girl dressing up as a nun. I’d pack my missal given to me at my first Communion into my purse or backpack and read it in...
by marybeth | Mar 31, 2020 | Life, Reflections
Image credit: Pixabay.com (2013), CC0/PD Early Christians were made recognizable by their actions. Aristedes, sent by Emperor Hadrian during the days of the early Church to scope out those known as “Christians,” gave a report and these ending words have...
by marybeth | Dec 2, 2019 | Family, Life, Parenthood
It’s been almost 72 hours since I dropped him off at the airport and we are all still alive. Survival is necessary. Patience is prudent and a good dose of humility never hurts the cause! I made myself a goal of keeping my patience this time around. As much as I miss...
by marybeth | Oct 6, 2019 | Family, Life, Marriage, Parenthood
Published in the Catholic Times, October, 6th 2019 We didn’t expect for it to end up this way. Twenty-two years, eight children, and a life lived so deeply that the everyday beauty and suffering of it is at times both blinding and brilliant. We met as college...
by marybeth | Feb 9, 2016 | Life
“Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24: 13-35 I was in the grocery store today, and I saw a woman with a baby in a sling and 5 or so kids with a cart near her. I...
