by Barbara Lishko | Dec 21, 2024 | Catholic Womanhood, Faith-filled Pondering, Featured
“Unplanned” is often used as a scapegoat and reason to justify the unthinkable. This is not what I planned… fill in the blank. Most of my life was not what I planned. Yet as I look back there is evidence of God doing something good in all those...
by Barbara Lishko | Dec 12, 2024 | Faith-filled Pondering, Latest and greatest, Married Life
On this Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, I pray for our country and all peoples of the Americas. Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Amen. Forty-five years have passed in what feels like an instant. Unforgettable are the wild...
by Barbara Lishko | Dec 2, 2024 | Attempts at Humor, Faith-filled Pondering, Womanhood
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that humans, starting at a very young age, tend to gather stuff. I observed this firsthand with my grandkids and any child I’ve had the good fortune to spend time with. “Mine,” shouts the toddler, and thus begins the desire to...
by Barbara Lishko | Oct 27, 2024 | Faith-filled Pondering, Latest and greatest
Is anything more frustrating than a tree that will not produce the fruit it was designed to deliver? After purchasing a lemon tree and following all the prescribed directions for it to flourish, we rightfully expected to find lemons. Instead, we got a dead tree that...
by Barbara Lishko | Sep 29, 2024 | Faith-filled Pondering, Latest and greatest
As a teenager, I dreamed of becoming a nurse and moved toward that goal in college. I worked at the local hospital, so I knew what I was getting into- and then I met my husband, who whisked me off to beautiful South Korea for the first year of our marriage. As my...
