Thankful for My Parish Community
I must confess that I one time I felt some superiority to many of the parishioners in my parish community. It seemed as though people arrived late for Mass, or weren't appropriately dressed, or let...
View ArticleThankful for My Job
Back when I was a beginning teacher I remember hearing a speaker who told us that 70% of teachers remained in the same school or school district their entire teaching career. I have no idea if that...
View ArticleThankful for My Husband and Son
I never had a lot of boyfriends. I was often told by my mom that I would not marry and the implication was I was too fat and not pretty and maybe too smart for any boy to love me. My high school was...
View ArticleThankful for My Family
I was a most loved and wanted baby. Imagine if you were told that you would never be able to have children and after 5 years of marriage, along came a baby, not from fertility treatments, but just as...
View ArticleThankful for my Crosses
This is Black Friday and chances are Jennifer Fulwiler isn't doing 7 Quick Takes today. I thought I would use this day to be thankful for my crosses.I remember when I was in sixth grade noticing the...
View ArticleThankful for My Life
I think that I am somewhat like my grandma on my dad's side. She lived a tragic life in many respects and made the best of it. My grandma was a smart lady who worked to solve her problems. My life...
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Prayers for the First Sunday in Advent
One candle to light up the darkness. A tiny bit of hope and faith in my heart. Help me to fan into flame the life within me. Help me to keep alive the spark even in the gloom of the darkening...
View ArticleFirst Candle, the Prophet
Although the Sunday readings today leaned toward the end of the world, this first Sunday in Advent I lit the Prophet's Candle. The Prophet's Candle is a name for the first purple candle on the Advent...
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A Break Down of Advent By Candlelight Preparations, The Party Favors
This post is assuming that your parish already has Advent By Candlelight and you have asked to be a hostesses, rather than planning the whole thing from the outset. I am on my third year of hostessing...
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Advent By Candlelight Preparations, The Centerpiece
The centerpiece is the piece that makes each table special. I haven't seen two tables with the same centerpiece in two years of Advent By Candlelight.I bought a centerpiece at Kohls that I used for...
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Advent By Candlelight Preparations, The Serving Pieces
For an Advent by Candlelight the serving pieces can be as simple as paper plates and cups or as complex as china and crystal and silver. The thing to remember is that things have to be hauled in and...
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Thanksgiving to You, Lord
Dear Lord,Thank You for the gift of family. Thank You for the get-togethers and the card games and the food.Thank You for my siblings and their children.Thank You for my mom and her long life.Thank...
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7 Quick Takes
Jennifer Fulwiler hosts this carnival each week. Go around and visit the rest.1. Last week I drove up to Quincy and took Mom to the doctor and shopped for and cooked Thanksgiving dinner at my...
View ArticleGod's Love
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end, they are new every morning, new every morning. Great is Thy faithfulness, O God, great is Thy faithfulness....That is my...
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Sunday Prayers, Second Sunday in Advent
Lord, into the darkness of a winter night You came to bring love and hope and joy. Help me to carry those fruits in my heart today and always. Amen.
View ArticleSnow Dance
Friday was a snow day in my world. School was called more on the basis of expected snow than on snow on the ground. There was an under-layer of ice, so school being called off was fine. I have...
View ArticleLast Minute Louie
I am planned and organized after a fashion, and that fashion seems to be--if I possibly think I might have time--throw in one more thing. I did that getting ready for Advent By Candlelight on Friday....
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A Taste of Advent By Candlelight
Despite the snow day and the bitter cold, Advent by Candlelight went on at my parish last Friday. It is tedious to work with the pictures to put in the blog. I haven't finished yet. But, I have done...
View ArticleThank You, Lord
Dear Lord,Thank You for this season of hurry and hope and joy and expectation. Thank You for the busy-ness of my life. Thank You for the love and the chance to share with others the many gifts you...
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Seven Quick Takes
Jennifer Fulwiler hosts this carnival of the blogs. Go visit the rest!1. In God's wonderful creative way I had my cake and ate it too last Friday. School was called off because of impending snow...
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