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Mother/Daughter Retreat

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Happy Sunday, y'all! Several of you have asked me when I will be leading another Mother/Daughter retreat and I am happy to announce that the next one will be April 29th-May 1st at our lovely retreat center in Corpus Christi, TX. For more information, see the flyer below. To register for the retreat, click here

Receive Mercy: A Lenten Journey, Part 2

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Friends- Here is Part 2 of my little Lenten Journey series! Hope it blesses you-

The Hope For Freedom

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I love this tweet posted yesterday by Pope Francis.  I think one of our greatest fears and sorrows is the belief that we will be forever marked by our past- by what we have done or what has been done to us. Perhaps we fear that "victim", "loser" or "rejected" is our deepest identity. We spend so much of our lives coping and trying to compensate for what we fear might be true.  Lent reveals the truth. And in this Jubilee Year of Mercy, we find that our deepest identity, our deepest calling and yearning, is actually one of relationship- being sons and daughters of God. When we embrace the courage to face our sin and brokenness and receive ongoing mercy, our lives are transformed.  This is the Good News- that Jesus became man; that God took on flesh. He assumed all to redeem all.  His life, death and resurrection changes everything.  We need not remain prisoners of the past.  We rise to our true identity in the glorious freedom of the 

Know Yourself: A Lenten Journey, Part 1

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I Don't Know What I Don't Know...

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Every driver knows that one of the worst places you can find yourself is in the "blindspot" of another driver. You know, that little space in the line of sight between the coverage of the rear view or side mirror and the actual car next to us. I think we've all had the experience of checking our mirrors and then changing lanes, only to hear the mad blast of a horn as a car speeds by that was previously unseen to us. As our heart races over the near collision, we practically break our necks double checking the next 12 lane changes. And then sometimes the collision does happen. We "could have sworn there was no car next to us" but the accident happens and the problems and trauma ensue.  One of my friends noted that this is true in our personal lives as well. How many times have we "run into or over" others simply because we didn't "see them." It's the boss who regularly becomes angry and screams at his employees because "that

Choosing Conversion

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If you've ever been to a 12-Step meeting, you know that at some point the group or someone in the group will usually pray or reference the "Serenity Prayer."  That well-known prayer is found on wall hangings, plaques, dishes, prayer cards, etc. and the text usually reads, "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."  Would that we all lived that short prayer! Imagine how different our daily lives would be?  And yet, there is more.  That short excerpt is actually part of a longer prayer which continues: Living one day at a time;   enjoying one moment at a time;  accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;  taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;  trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will;  that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.  Amen.

The 8th Corporeal Work of Mercy...

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I posted this on Twitter yesterday and couldn't help but post it here as well! Bringing a little mercy for all the coffee lovers during this Year of Mercy! God bless you :)