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[…] to call me soon for an interview. My phone never rang. What began as a goal became a fixation. I raced to the local mall, bought a cheap black business suit, returned to the news station, and begged the receptionist to give me one brief appointment with the news director. Moments later, pulse racing, […]
[…] often than not) inconvenient. Up close: “Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 10:6). Start in your backyard, your own community, not online or via social media. Personal: “As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, […]
[…] for everything from revival in the world and miracles in tragedy to things like my sanctification, a husband, acne medicine that I couldn’t afford, and a dirt cheap Patagonia fleece for my birthday. Believe it or not, Proactive appeared at my doorstep with no name on the box, and I found a very inexpensive […]
[…] I am not looking at it with gratitude. So I return home and make my kids wait on a promised trip to the aquarium because I am online looking at packaged diet meal plans. These plans are expensive; people are starving; this is all messed up. So I turn to the leper who returned […]
[…] how she describes her mission: to help people live true, good, and beautiful lives offline. She points out that the question is how to fulfill this mission online, because that is where much of her work is done. I like how she wrestles and I am learning more from her longform writing than I […]
[…] is chaos, and if it were not for my holy habit of meeting Jesus in Scripture, I might be searching for a little extra cash and a cheap boat for sale. Praise God for Walking with Purpose, a ministry that teaches women how to read the Bible. A community that showed me what breaking […]
[…] Fellow at The Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Scholar at The Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America. She is a prolific writer and author of several books, including The Marian Option, The Anti-Mary Exposed, and Theology of Home. A mother of five, she is also the editor of the online Catholic women's magazine, TheologyofHome.com.
[…] one more thing. If he was scheduled for two hours of physical therapy, he’d ask for three. Perhaps one more thing for you looks like forgoing the online grocery shopping this week and walking into the store and smiling at real live people. Maybe it’s getting back to meeting your friend at the local […]
[…] got choices to make. Which ones will lead us toward the path to true flourishing? As I’ve reflected on the rising rates of alcohol consumption, Netflix binging, and online escapism, I am arrested by the following question: Instead of needing to escape our lives, how about if we build lives we don’t want to escape? […]
[…] what I have? The answer is yes. Not only content but grateful. Friends, after years of God trying to get my attention, painfully watching me turn to cheap substitutes and false idols in the hopes of feeling a sense of enough, it would be my weakness that eventually leads me to Him. It was […]