Dear Lord Jesus, As I contemplate the blessed Feast of Your Ascension into Heaven this week, please grant me the grace of remembering to look up from the things that keep my eyes distracted from my most important tasks as a mother — like the disciples gazing into the [...]
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How time has flown since my last post on this blog! It’s been several years for me, but I can just imagine the Apostles feeling similarly—albeit in a much more condensed time frame! Forty days having passed since Christ’s Resurrection and now the joy of being with Jesus in [...]
Dear Lord God, Almighty Creator, I thank you for the gift of time, our temporal existence on this earth! Help me to find ways to bring You into every aspect of today — from the rising dawn of the morning to our day’s end in the evening. Help me [...]
What are the anchors of your day? I started thinking of certain prayers/family rituals as anchors because I wanted them to sink into the rhythm of our day. Seasons come and go, and schedules change as our family adapts to this season’s current priorities. Lent provided us with a [...]
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Dear Lord God, Thank you for all the opportunities you give me every day to teach my children the “easy” way to holiness! Help me to encourage and model the little selfless acts that please You so much, as we seek to truly follow your example of holiness, and [...]
Recently, I have focused on exhorting my children that undertaking such and such an act — ranging from a menial chore like putting away washed dishes on the drying rack, or something more thoughtful such as bringing big brother a cup of ice cold water, or something unexpected like [...]
O Lord, my Almighty God, Thank you for the grace of being able to home educate my children! Help me to filled with joy re all the potentiality of the new academic year, and not to be overwhelmed when our days do not go “as planned.” Help me to [...]
It is a hard thing to let go sometimes. I find it hard to let go of souvenirs — perhaps because my memory is so poor for events of distant past that I don’t want to forget so I hold onto reminders — whether a piece of paper, a [...]