Faith Inspiration

Kindness is Contagious

Last week I was getting ready to pull out of a parking lot when I noticed a mom with her minivan’s side door open. I saw that she was trying to mop up a lake of juice from her car with only two napkins. I was in a hurry and thought of just pulling away.Read the whole post >>

Believing Through the Hardest Times

This is an old column from Faith & Family LIVE, but it just feels so appropriate right now, and I’m still not finding adequate time to write new stuff. I just read a magazine article about how the people of Haiti are still struggling to rebuild their lives. We were shocked and devastated when theRead the whole post >>

For a Friend

He Leadeth Me by Walter Ciszek, which I read last year per Jen’s recommendation, was one of those books I marked all over with a pencil and highlighter because so much of it spoke to me. Last night I was perusing old quotes filed away in a “faith/religious” notebook in search of words that mightRead the whole post >>

Join the Kind Conversation

Visit Kind Conversation Elizabeth Foss has created a space to encourage and to be encouraged. Won’t you join the conversation? About Kind Conversation (from Elizabeth Foss): The journey to this post was a long one, a prayerful one, and a surprisingly fruitful one. I have heard you and I have listened. I truly, truly hopeRead the whole post >>

Children, Our Easter People

Marjorie Campbell, an author, a writer for Inside Catholic and Phases of Womanhood, and a treasured e-friend of mine shared with me an excerpt from a beautiful Easter homily that Father Ramelo Somer delivered in a small parish in Kauai. Because it put into words the meaning and hope behind Easter so eloquently, I share it hereRead the whole post >>