Pray a lot!!!
Pray for everything, even if it seems impossible or ridiculous and you can’t barely voice it pray !!!!
Pray for the small things, the big things and everything in between.
Keep that connection between you and God open everyday all day
Just pray without ceasing!!
Stop asking if you’re too much... Start asking if this space is too small... You were not designed to shrink... You were designed to stir something in others...
The old version of you was necessary. She built the bridge. But you’re here now. On the other side. Stop running back to burn in the fire you already walked through. Let the old story rest.
You are not here to fix the world. You are here to embody your truth so fully that it ripples outward, quietly rewriting the field of what’s possible. That is how the world changes.
Sometimes, stillness is the bravest thing you can choose. In a world addicted to movement, choosing to pause is an act of defiance. A way to remember that being is enough.
If you find yourself getting anxious about current events, I would suggest two things:
-Ask yourself, "what can I do about it practically?". If there is anything, then do it immediately.
-Give your life to God, and enter the peace which passeth all understanding
Hey America, with the freezing cold weather you’ll be having over the weekend, why not give this a go ❄️🫧
🔸 You’ll need:
1 cup warm water
3 tablespoons dish soap
2 tablespoons Sugar
2 tablespoon corn syrup (or glycerin)
Bubble wand or straw
🔸 What to do:
Gently mix everything together (don’t shake it)
Allow your bubble solution to cool before blowing bubbles. Let it sit for 30–60 minutes.
Take it outside when temps are well below freezing.
Blow bubbles and watch them freeze, forming icy patterns before they pop.
🔸 Best results:
Calm air
Temperatures below -10°C / 14°F
A little patience
Nature doing what it does best - turning something simple into something magical ❄️✨
I don’t know Cathy at all, who I assume to be a very nice and thoughtful person. But what informs my reaction to a lot of this stuff is that I do know quite a number of people personally who feel as Cathy does, people who I know cheated on their first wife, people who I know lost custody of their kids 10 years ago because of their alcoholism, people who I know have committed fraud, people who I know have told big lies in their life for which they have never come clean, people who I know spend seven days a week at the bar, people who I know stole from their friends, people who I know cheated in college, people who I know drink and drive, and so on and so on and so on.
And they join right in there with everybody else in a posture of moral superiority because they took the right position on a story they saw on the news, because something they heard on NPR made them feel an emotion.
It’s demented and deranged and a society full of such people cannot function.
As we wrestle in my home state of Minnesota with the fact of deep corruption in the political and economic orders, I want to draw attention to the “social justice” dimension of this problem. Catholic social teaching has a good deal to say about official corruption, insisting that it undermines confidence in our leaders, compromises the integrity of the institutions of government, and subverts the rule of law. But even more importantly, it deeply harms the poor, stealing resources from them, increasing inequality, and blocking essential services such as health and education. And if the widespread fraud in Minnesota is also present in a number of other states, we are dealing with a massive violation of human rights and a heinous attack upon the poor and needy. This should not be a matter of partisan politics. Rather, wherever this corruption exists, it should be fought and those responsible for it brought to justice.
The bar is truly so low. For everything. So much of the world is run by confident but mediocre people just trundling along. You can simply show up, act like you belong, put in the work & win in any category you want to. These people are not smarter than you.
It is beautiful to view the coming year as an open journey to be discovered. Indeed, through grace, we can venture forth on this journey with confidence – free and bearers of freedom, forgiven and bringers of forgiveness, trusting in the closeness and goodness of the Lord who accompanies us always.