by Barbara | Jul 16, 2011 | My Musings
I set up a tour of St Mary’s Basilica today with our some of our teens. Gordon the Choir Director a wonderfully knowledgeable young man who hails from Scotland, presented the history of the Basilica with such passion and joy it was hard not to be interested....
by Barbara | Jul 4, 2011 | My Musings
Today is not supposed to be only about picnics and fireworks. Today we really need to look back and ponder the immense sacrifice that others gave so that we CAN have picnics and fireworks and FREEDOM. I know a young man who is in the Marine bootcamp right now, he was...
by Barbara | Jul 1, 2011 | Faith
“What can I do to help?” These words echoed again and again as news of my surgery rang through our Church, neighborhood, friends and family. It is awkward being on this end of needing. I like being the giver. I am a Martha, and we like to be the do-ers. What I wanted...
by Barbara | Jun 13, 2011 | My Musings, Suffering
Successful brain surgery, praise God and the abundance of prayers that flooded heaven. I am adjusting to life without hearing on my left side…it will take some getting used to. As I lay on my right side to sleep…. I won’t even hear the angel’s...
by Barbara | May 23, 2011 | Momentary Inspiration, My Musings
“[Jesus] consented to empty Himself and become the hardest thing in the universe…a mortal human being…to enter our daily lives. God walks among us, is so simple we refuse to believe it; it fulfills our deepest yearning and binds us to what has...