• Choose Life

    On my recent trip to Colorado, I planned a day trip in the mountains to celebrate my husband’s birthday. I planned a surprise activity for him – a mountain hike to St. Mary’s Glacier and it was a beautiful start to our day. I chose a place that we had never been to before, I…

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  • Conquer your Mountain

    My blog will return next week, today I am heading up to the mountains to celebrate my husband’s birthday. I am off social media today, but carry with me a saying from Edmund Hillary- It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. God Bless.

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  • Shepherd Me, O God

    This past week I have slipped into fear and anxiety, waking during the night feeling unsettled and having a difficult time focusing. I am finding it difficult to wade through all the thoughts that bombard me and the feeling of peace has escaped me. I sit with the Lord this morning for about an hour…

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  • Take Courage

    Do not let your heart be troubled, for I am with you. When I am faced with fear and anxiety, the Lord says, “take courage”. I realize for me to have courage is to turn further toward God and follow Him; to follow His voice, His lead, His command. He is the one who has…

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  • The Words I Speak

    Words are powerful things, they can either lift up or tear down, they can encourage or discourage, they can bring peace or discord, words are important. They can be uttered in haste with little thought or be deliberate with concern. It is definitely something I strive to work on daily; to stay close to the…

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  • Do not let your heart be troubled, John 14:1, these are the words the Lord spoke to me while I was in prayer last week. It was the last thing I had written in my journal after spending an hour in the chapel. He spoke to me in the silence, where I could hear the…

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  • Our Father

    Our Father, the first words Jesus taught His Apostles, His Followers, when they asked how to pray. Jesus withdrew to pray to His Father in secret, but they had a longing in their hearts for the words. The first two words are striking, Our Father – a Father to all, a Father that is always…

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  • Surrender

    The Lord has whispered a word to me – “surrender”. A word that leads me into an array of emotions. There is fear of what the Lord is asking, a fear of the unknown, of what is to come; there is a sense of self-discipline that is needed to enter into a greater time of…

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  • Choose Love

    I don’t remember when Our Lady of Kibeho, the Marian Apparition in Rwanda became known to me. Perhaps I happened upon it in my reading of Marian Apparitions around the world. I knew little about the genocide that took place halfway around the world, I do remember reading a tiny article in the newspaper about…

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  • My daughter was Confirmed last weekend, and due to the pandemic and the postponement of the first date, it fell on Pentecost Sunday. The day we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles all those years ago. The Lord died a most cruel death and rose again on the third day, where…

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