Everyone gets a turn in the crucible

February 21, 2008 By

Be God’s own, and remember I pray for you. – Archangel Gabriel, in Jane Lebak’s Seven Archangels; Annihilation I have a lot of prayer requests – people writing and asking me to pray for them or for friends and family. I’m always happy to do it; prayer has power, and when you’re hearing about a [...]

Filed Under: Crucible of Faith, Prayer

Mary and the Crucifix

January 19, 2007 By

Reposted from November, 2005. I stumbled on this tonight and realized that when I wrote it my friend Jane was dying and none of us knew it, not even she. And my BIL thought he would live to be 99, just like his mother and father. Things turn on a dime. Thought I’d post this [...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Crucible of Faith, Jesus Christ, Mary, Prayer

We’re in this together, outside of time

November 3, 2005 By

I have been corresponding with a friend who is enduring the loss of a beloved family member; his grief is still very new. My grief for my brother S is a little older. It was just a bare week or so ago that I noted the passing of one year since he entered hospice. The [...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Christians in Exile, Communion of Saints, Crucible of Faith, Faith, Mary, My brother S