In Stephen King novels, people get weird, prickly, unsettling feelings when they walk past the old house (hospital, church, pet cemetery, 7-11, whatever) on the corner in the little town in Maine. For weeks I’ve had this weird nagging feeling every time I passed the dry cleaner’s. To my knowledge, it wasn’t haunted or anything,… Continue reading Thank you, Guardian Angel…
Category: The Christian Life
Spirit of Farming
Interesting article at Catholic Exchange about a Franciscan farm.
How to Pray
Satan’s greatest work on earth as he seeks to devour souls that are called to heaven is to keep us from praying and getting them to stop that journey. When we look at three disastrous and diabolical revolutions that have taken place over the last five hundred years–the Protestant, the French, and Communist–we find that… Continue reading How to Pray
Did I See That Right?
We were at the Latin Mass yesterday, and on the other side of the pew was an older gentleman who kept looking over at out family. The two youngest were being their usual fidgety selves, so my husband assumed “oh, they are distracting him…” Later he brought them in the back. After Mass, the gentleman… Continue reading Did I See That Right?
What’s good for business is good for America?
Not necessarily: Electrolux, the company that probably made the refrigerator in your home (think Frigidaire, White-Westinghouse, Gibson, Kenmore, Kelvinator) just rewarded 2700 workers in central Michigan for their productivity, loyalty and decades of hard work. With a pink slip. This kind of thing really makes me seethe.
Wonder where I could get some of this stuff
It starts with the beans: Fair-trade movement gains momentum In the late summer of 2002, thousands of starving coffee farmers and their families streamed down from the northern mountains of Nicaragua. Some carried crosses. They established shantytowns along the Panamerican Highway. Many of their children were too weak to open their eyes. Twenty-one deaths were… Continue reading Wonder where I could get some of this stuff
What is “Too Extreme” Anyway?
While it is always fun to get together with extended family over the holidays, these holidays brought a rally of strange comments such as “so, it looks like you are joining a cult…””well, you cannot possibly want anymore children, you can’t afford it…””you have to be moderate…””those poor kids, they cannot even watch Charlie Brown’s… Continue reading What is “Too Extreme” Anyway?
Santa?
This is my usual mumbling over some issue and then trying to find a nice spot for sitting on the fence. Bobbi asks, in our comments box and on her own fine blog, how we handle the Santa question: How do you allow them to use their imagination and enjoy make-believe stories and still let… Continue reading Santa?